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# Emeritus Gallery showcases one of its own in exhibition
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/emeritus-gallery-showcases-one-of-its-own-in-exhibition/
- Published: 2024-01-26T14:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-12-04T15:19:10.000Z
- Author: Thomas Leffler
- Tags: Featured, art, college, gallery, painting, SMC, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-06 12:20

Santa Monica College’s Emeritus Gallery is featuring the works of one of its own to kick off 2024\. On Jan. 18, the gallery began hosting the exhibition *Anna Conley: The Invisible Man*, which will be available for viewing through March 22\. Conley, who has an extensive background in music, began coming to Emeritus College in the mid-2010s.

"I had a conversation with myself, I was sitting alone and I thought ‘what is it that I would miss out \[on\] if I dropped dead tomorrow,’ and my answer to that was paint," Conley told Emeritus Gallery Curator Jesse Benson during an online presentation discussing the exhibition.

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"I didn’t know where to go, where to start, and I came into Emeritus." The expressive and abstract imagery of *The Invisible Man* was inspired by a friend’s bout with cancer, but is also a self-reflective set of paintings. The gallery can be viewed on campus at 1227 2nd Street from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday.

*thomas@smdp.com*