This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Known for film making, assemblage, drawing, painting, collage, photographs, and conceptual events, Bruce Conner has been a hard working artist who has spent much of his life searching for artistic truth. He is best known for his assemblage, but turned to other mediums after 1964 because he did not want to be only associated with one style. He has achieved much fame but shows little interest in its trappings.
In fact, he has refused to be photographed and often does not sign his work. As a prank, he sent a notice of his death to "Who's Who in American Art," and exhibited a series of his collages under the name of his friend, Dennis Hopper. However, a Walker Art Gallery retrospective in 2000 has given him much public exposure.
In the early 1960s, he became a key figure among artists in San Francisco, a city where he and his wife, Jean, arrived in 1957 from his childhood home of Wichita, Kansas. Conner and his artist friends including Joan Brown, Jay De Feo, Manuel Neri, and Wallace Berman, formed the Rat-Bastard Protective Association, a counter-culture group to distance themselves from mainstream values. They became known as Beat-Generation artists who looked for something deeper than what they perceived as the shallow pieties of Eisenhower dominated America.
Continuing to search for something beyond conventional America, he spent two years in Mexico where he did embryonic drawings in obsessive patterning. He returned to San Francisco and went into a period of exile from 1967 to 1971 when he quit exhibiting or teaching art. He supported himself by being a janitor and a salesman and made art only for himself. He developed inkblot drawings that explored symmetry and chance and experimented with methods of photography and film.
His career, focused on his search for artistic truth, has led him through a wide range of forms and mediums, and his personality is one of humor and a love of the absurd.
Source:
Michael Duncan, 'Keeping Up With Conner', "Art in America", June 2000
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Conner was born November 18, 1933 in McPherson, Kansas. Attended East High School in Wichita. Studied art at the Univ. of Wichita with David Bernard from 1951-52 and at the Univ. of Nebraska, where he received a BFA in 1956. He continued his studies at the Brooklyn Art School and the Univ. of Colorado. Moved to San Francisco in 1957 where he was part of the counter-culture movement known as Beat-Generation artists. In the 1960s and after he turned to film, photography, and collages made from old engravings and intricate felt-tip pen drawings. He died in San Francisco, California on July 7, 2008.
Exhibitions: Museum of Modern Art, 1961; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, 1967; De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, 1974; Univ. Art Museum, Berkeley, 1987; Wichita Art Museum, 1997; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1999; Walker Art Center, 2000; American Univ. Museum, 2005; and many more. Collections: Amherst (MA) Fine Arts; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery; Norton Simon Museum of Art; Fine Arts Of San Francisco; San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art; De Saisset Museum; Cantor Arts Center; Museum of
Modern Art; Art Institute of Chicago; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Whitney
Museum of American Art; Univ. Art Museum, Berkeley; Museum of Art & Archaeology,
Columbia, MO; Oakland Museum; Norton Simon Museum; Smithsonian American Art
Museum; National Gallery of Art; Emprise Bank Collection; and more.
| Source:
SOURCES:
Susan Craig, "Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists (active before 1945)"
AskART, www.askart.com, accessed Oct. 12, 2007; Archives of American Art Oral History Interview,
http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/transcripts/conner73.htm, accessed Oct. 12, 2007; Who’s Who in American Art. New York: American Federation of Arts,
1936-1976; Art Inventories Cat.; Pamphlet file at the Smithsonian American Art Museum/National Portrait Gallery Library in Washington, DC.; Wichita Art Museum’s Library Artists’ Files. | | This and over 1,750 other biographies can be found in Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists (active before 1945) compiled by Susan V. Craig, Art & Architecture Librarian at University of Kansas. |
Biography from Gallery Paule Anglim:
| Bruce Conner has become a central figure in the evolution of new media and unconventional art forms, providing contemporary art with radical and iconic approaches. From film, photography, painting, drawing and printmaking to found object/found media appropriations Conner’s unexpected drawings, sculptures, collages and assemblages defined an otherworldly state of consciousness.
Education:
1956 B.F.A., Nebraska University
1956 Brooklyn Museum Art School
1957 University of Colorado
Solo Exhibitions:
2007 Bruce Conner, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005 After Conner: Anonymous, Anonymouse and Emily Feather, Katzen Art Center Museum, American University, Washington, D.C.
Conner Obscura, Film Screening, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
Bruce Conner, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Bruce Conner, Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
Emily Feather: Inkblot Drawings, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Bruce Conner: Punk Photos: 1978, Luke(DVD): 2004, Barbara Gladstone Gallery,
New York, NY
2004 Bruce Conner: Prints, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY
Bruce Conner and Company, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Bruce Conner: Tapestries, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Films of Bruce Conner, The Seventh Art: New Dimensions in Cinema,
SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
2003 Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003 The Dennis Hopper One Man Show Vol. II, Susan Inglett, New York
2002 2002 B.C., Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
2000 Bruce Conner : Early Assemblages and Recent Inkblot Drawings, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Bruce Conner, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA, June 2000
Bruce Conner: Wood Engraving Collages 1961-1996, Susan Inglett, New York, NY
Dead Punks and Ashes, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY
Asynchronous snapping of the Synapses: Permanent Collection Works by Bruce Conner, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
2000 B.C.: The Bruce Conner Story Part II, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los
Angeles, CA, October 2000
2000 B.C.: The Bruce Conner Story Part II, M.H. deYoung Memorial Museum,
San Francisco, CA, May, 2000
2000 B.C.: The Bruce Conner Story Part II, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth,
Fort Worth, TX, February, 2000
1999 2000 B.C.: The Bruce Conner Story Part II, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis,
MN, October, 1999
Looking for Mushrooms, Bruce Conner Drawings 1960-1968, Kohn Turner
Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, March 1999
1998 Bruce Conner, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY
1997 Fearful Symmetry: Inkblot Drawings and Engraving Collages, Kohn Turner
Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Bruce Conner: Engraving Collages, Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas
1996 Elite Novelties: Salon Art of the Nineties, Thirteen Engraving Collages by
Bruce Conner, Smith-Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
1995 Bruce Conner: 15 Beautiful Mysteries, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles;
Prints and Multiples, I.C. Editions, New York
Curt Marcus Gallery, New York
1993 Kohn Abrams Gallery, Los Angeles
Gallery Paule Anglim
Zabriskie Gallery, New York
1992 Feigen Gallery, Chicago
Curt Marcus Gallery, New York
1991 Michael Kohn Gallery, Santa Monica
Smith-Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto
1990 Michael Kohn Gallery, Santa Monica
1989 Smith-Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto
1988 56, Bleecker Gallery LTD, New York
1987 Pink and Pearl Gallery, San Diego
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley
1986 Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
1985 Bruce Conner: Photograms, Art Museum Association of America, San Francisco (Traveling Exhibition)
1983 Smith-Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto
1980-81 North Point Gallery, San Francisco
1977 University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
1976 Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco
1975 Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco
1974-75 DeYoung Museum, San Francisco; Joslyn Museum, Omaha, Nebraska;
Wadsworth Athenaum, Hartford, Connecticut; Otis Art Gallery, Los Angeles;
Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Henry Art Gallery, University
of Washington, Seattle
1974 Galerie Smith-Andersen, Palo Alto
Tyler Art Museum, Tyler, Texas
Quay Gallery, San Francisco
1973 Texas Gallery, Houston
1972 Reese Palley Gallery, San Francisco
City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
James Willis Gallery, San Francisco
Texas Gallery, Houston
Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles
1971 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
Molly Barnes Gallery, Los Angeles
Reese Palley Gallery, San Francisco
1967 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
1966 Quay Gallery, San Francisco
1965 Alan Gallery, New York
Galeries "J", Paris
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Boston
University of British Columbia Art Gallery
1964 Batman Gallery, San Francisco
Alan Gallery, New York
George Lester Gallery, Rome
Robert Fraser Gallery, London
1963 Neallie Sullivan Award, San Francisco Art Association
Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas
Alan Gallery, New York
Swetzoff Gallery, Boston
1962 Glantz Gallery, Mexico City
Antonio Souza Gallery, Mexico City
Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles
1960 Alan Gallery, New York
Batman Gallery, San Francisco
1959 Spatsa Gallery, San Francisco
1958 Designers Gallery, San Francisco
East West Gallery, San Francisco
1956 Rienzi Gallery, New York
Group Exhibitions:
2007 Pioneers, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
The Third Mind, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2006 Tapestries from Magnolia Editions, Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA
A Century of Collage, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
Semina Culture: Wallace Berman & His Circle, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
2005 Lost but Found: Assemblage, Collage and Sculpture, 1920-2002, Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA
Tapestries from Magnolia Editions, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
Assemblage and Collage in California in the 1960s, 871 Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
Collages, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY
The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography 1960-1982, Miami Art Central, Miami, FL
Magnolia Editions Tapestries, Jay Jay (Gallery), Sacramento, CA
2004 Big Deal 2004, Visual Aid’s 11th Annual Art Sale and Fundraiser, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA
American Pictures, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Featuring, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY
Infinite Possibilities: Serial imagery in 20th century drawings, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
The True Artist is an Amazing Luminous Fountain: Selected Works from the Di Rosa Preserve: Art & Nature, di Rosa Preserve: Art & Nature, Napa, CA
Travels to: The Kreeger Museum Washington, DC; Palm Springs Desert
Museum, Palm Springs, CA; Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History,
Santa Cruz, CA; Miami Beach, FL
Disparities and Deformations, Our Grotesque Site, Santa Fe, NM, The Fifth
International Biennial Exhibition
Matisse and Beyond: The Painting and Sculpture Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
The Big Nothing, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, PA
Southern Exposure Benefit Auction, San Francisco, CA
The Lab’s 8th Annual Sale & Live Auction, Benefit, San Francisco, CA
The Seventies, BAM, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
Michael Kohn Gallery at the Armory Show, The International Fair of New Art,
New York, NY
Collage, Theatre Gallery, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA (in conjunction
with Loose Ends film series A Movie and Cosmic Ray (September 14, 2004);
Valse Triste and Crossroads (September 28, 2004))
The Not So Still Life: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture, Pasadena
Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA
The Disembodied Spirit, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
From Picasso to Thiebaud: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Collections of Stanford University Alumni and Friends, Stanford University Museum,
Palo Alto, CA
San Francisco International Art Exposition – Gallery Paule Anglim Premieres BC
Tapestry: MARY ANOINTING JESUS WITH THE PRECIOUS OILS OF
SPIKENARD, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA
2003 Newer Genres: Twenty Years of the Rutgers Archive for Printmaking-Studios, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Site and Insight: An Assemblage of Artists,P.S.1. Contemporary Art Center ,
Long Island City, New York
Not Exactly Photographs, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Cut, Copy, Paste: The Art of Contemporary Collage, de Saisset Museum, Santa
Clara, CA
2002 Unknown Quantity, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris
No War, The Luggage Store, San Francisco
Ferus, Gagosian Gallery, New York
Sunday Afternoon, 303gallery, New York
A Silent Poetry, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
2001 Obsessions, University Art Gallery, UCSD, San Diego
The Universe; Creation, Constellations and the Cosmos, Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA,
2000 Cross-Currents in Modern Art: A Tribute to Peter Selz, Achim Moeller Fine Art, New York, NY
Tamarind: Forty Years, University of New Mexico Art Museum
2000 Celebrating Modern Art: Highlights of the Anderson Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1999 The American Century, Art & Culture 1900-2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
The Art of Collaborative Printmaking: Smith Andersen Editions, de Saisset
Museum, Santa Clara Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
Homage to the San Francisco Art Institute, Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Group Exhibition, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY
Impressing the Body, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Meaning and Message: Contemporary Art from the Museum Collection, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
Second Impressions, Meaning and Message in Contemporary Art, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
The Great Drawing Show: 1550 to 1999, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Pattern, James Graham & Sons, New York, NY
Drawn from Artists' Collections, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Radical Past: Contemporary Art & Music in Pasadena, 1960 - 1974, Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA
1997 Biennial 1997, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Scene of the Crime. Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Bruce Conner and Barbara Ess, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York
Media in Media, Soros Center for Contemporary Arts, Ljubjana, Slovenia
1996 Art and Film, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (Travels)
Beat Culture and the New America: 1950-1965, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Bruce Conner and Dennis Hopper, Paula Anglim Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1995 Beat Culture and the New America: 1950-1965, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
The Rational World, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
A Bay Area Connection: Works from the Anderson Collection, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
1968 SMS, I.C. Editions, Inc., New York
Sight/Vision: The Urban Milieu, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1994 Drawn in the 70’s, Brook Alexander Gallery, New York
1993 Zabriskie Gallery, New York
1993 Kohn Abrams Gallery, Los Angeles
1991 Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York
1989-90 40 Years of California Assemblage, Curated by Ann Ayres; Wight Art Gallery, Los Angeles; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California Fresno Art
Museum, Fresno, California; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
1986 Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York, NY
Sight Vision the Urban, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1983 Smith-Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1982 100 Years of California Sculpture, Oakland Museum, Oakland, California
1982 California Art of the 60's, deSaisset Museum, Santa Clara, California
The Americans: The Collage, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas
1978 Aspekte der 60er Jahre, Nationalgalerie, Berlin, West Germany
1977 Paris/New York, Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Perceptions of the Spirit, Indianapolis Museum of Art; University Art Museum,
Berkeley, California
Improbable Furniture, Institute of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
1975 Drawing Show, Newport Harbor Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Poets of the Cities, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; San Francisco Museum of
Art, San Francisco; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
1972 Family Show, Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Jaqueline Anhalt Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1967 Funk Art, University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Sculpture of the 60's, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
1964 Nieuwe Realisten, The Hague, The Netherlands
1963 66th Annual of American Painting, Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL
1962 50 California Artists, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1961 Illinois Biennial
1960 Gang Bang, Batman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1958 San Francisco Art Association Annual
1957 Six Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Bibliography – Selected:
Catalogs (Solo):
Bruce Conner: Twenty Two Inkblot Drawings, 1991-1999, Introduction by Michael Kohn, Los Angeles, CA:Kohn Turner Gallery, 2000
Celebrating Modern Art: Highlights of the Anderson Collection, San Francisco, CA: SFMOMA, 2000
2000 B.C.: The Bruce Conner Story Part II, Minneapolis, MN: Walker Art Center, 2000
Schwabsky, Barry, Bruce Conner Drawings, Vol. I, 1960-1968, LA, CA: Kohn Turner Gallery, 1999
Dean, Robert and Dennis Hopper. Bruce Conner: Assemblages, Paintings, Drawings, Engraving Collages, Los Angeles: Michael Kohn Gallery, 1990
Bruce Conner: Matrix/Berkeley 102, Berkeley: University Art Museum, 1987
Bruce Conner: Photograms, San Francisco: Art Museum Association of America, 1985
Bruce Conner Drawings 1955-1972, San Francisco: The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Bruce Conner Prints, Palo Alto, CA: Smith-Andersen Gallery, 1974
Bruce Conner: Sculpture/Assemblages/Collages/Drawings/Films, Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 1967
Bruce Conner, Waltham, MA: Poses Institute of Fine Arts, Brandeis University, 1965
Bruce Conner, London: Robert Fraser Gallery, 1964
Bruce Conner: San Francisco Art Institute Nealie Sullivan Award Exhibition, San Francisco: SFAI, 1963
Catalogs (Group):
Ayres, Anne. Forty Years of California Assemblage, Los Angeles, CA: Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, 1989
The "Junk" Aesthetic: Assemblage of the 1950s and Early 1960s, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1989
Armstrong, Elizabeth, and Sheila McGuire. First Impressions: Early Prints by Forty-Six Contemporary Artists, Minneapolis: Walker Art Center; New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1989
Starr, Sandra Leonard. Lost and Found in California: Four Decades of Assemblage Art, Santa Monica, CA: James Corcoran Gallery, 1988
Selections from the Permanent Collection, La Jolla, CA: La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, 1988
Gettings, Frank. Different Drummers, Washington, D.C.: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 1988
Stich, Sidra. Made in U.S.A., Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987
Europa/America: die Geschichte einer kunstlerischen Faszination seit 1940, Cologne: Museum Ludwig,1986
Extending the Perimeters of Twentieth-Century Photography, San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1985
Komanecky, Michael, and Virginia Fabbri Butera. The Folding Image: Screens by Artists of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century, New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1984
1983 Biennial Exhibition, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1983
Hills, Patricia, and Roberta K. Tarbell. The Figurative Tradition and the Whitney Museum of American Art: Paintings and Sculpture from the Permanent Collection, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1980
1979 Biennial Exhibition, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1979
Aspekte der 60er Jahre: aus der Sammlung Reinhard Onnasch, Berlin: Nationalgalerie, 1978
Paris-New York, Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1977
Improbable Furniture, Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 1977
Dillenberger, Jane, and John Dillenberger. Perceptions of the Spirit in Twentieth-Century American Art, Indianapolis: Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1977
The Last Time I Saw Ferus, Newport Beach, CA: Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1976
Sculpture: American Directions, 1945-1975, Washington, D.C.: National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, 1975
Menace, Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1975
Art as a Muscular Principle, South Hadley, MA: Mount Holyoke College, 1975
Poets of the Cities: New York and San Francisco, 1950-1965, New York: Dutton for the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1974
The Artist as Adversary, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1971
Crown Point Press, San Francisco: San Francisco Art Institute, 1972
Kompas 4/Westkust USA, Eindhoven: Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, 1969
Doty, Robert. Human Concern/Personal Torment, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1969
Assemblage in California: Works from the Late 50's and Early 60's, Irvine: University of California,1968
Tuchman, Maurice. American Sculpture of the Sixties, Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1967
Selz, Peter. Funk, Berkeley: University of California Art Museum, 1967
Los Angeles Now, London: Robert Fraser Gallery,1966
Contemporary American Sculpture: Selection 1, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1966
Selection 1964, Boston: Institute of Contemporary Art, 1964
Pop, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc., Vienna: Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, 1964
Annual Exhibition 1964: Contemporary American Sculpture, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1964
Fifty California Artists, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1962
Seitz, William C. The Art of Assemblage, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1961
Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, Urbana: Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, 1961
Seventy-Eighth Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association, San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Art, 1959
Books:
Yeo, Rob, “Cutting Through History: Found Footage in Avant-Garde Filmmaking,” CUT: FILM AS FOUND OBJECT IN CONTEMPORARY VIDEO, copyright 2005 Milwaukee Art Museum, pp. 16-18, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, June 25 – September 25, 2005
Joan Rothfuss and Elizabeth Carpenter, BITS AND PIECES PUT TOGETHER TO PRESENT A SEMBLANCE OF A WHOLE: WALKER ART CENTER COLLECTIONS, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 2005, pp. 9, 41, 45, 79, 166-169, 171, 265, 334, 527. Illustration: p. 45
Bruce Conner, Visiting Filmmakers Series, 1978 (Photo of artist); p. 166, THE BRIDE (sculpture); p. 167, Bruce Conner, UNTITLED 1954 – 1961 (collage); p. 168 ANGEL (photogram); p. 169 BREAKAWAY (film), 1966
Local Color: The diRosa Collection of Contemporary California Art, Chronicle Books, 1999
The American Art Book, Phaidon Press, 1999
Albright, Thomas. Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980: An Illustrated History, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985
Andersen, Wayne. American Sculpture in Process: 1930/1970, Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1975
Ashton, Dore. American Art Since 1945, New York: Oxford University Press, 1982
Ashton, Dore. Modern American Sculpture, New York: Abrams, 1968
Barr, Alfred H., Jr. Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art, 1929-1967, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977
Becker, Jurgen, and Wolf Vostell. Happenings: Fluxus, Pop Art, Nouveau Realisme, Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1965
Celant, Germano. Precronistoria 1966-69, Florence: Centro Di, 1976
Contemporary Artists, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983
Domergue, Denise. Artists Design Furniture, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1988
Hunter, Sam and John Jacobus. American Art of the 20th Century, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1973
Janis, Harriet, and Rudi Blesh. Collage: Personalities, Concepts, Techniques, Philadelphia: Chilton, 1967
Jencks, Charles and Nathan Silver. Adhocism: The Case for Improvisation, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972
Kultermann, Udo. The New Sculpture: Environments and Assemblages, New York: Praeger, 1968
Kultermann, Udo. The New Painting, New York: Praeger, 1969
Lippard, Lucy R. Pop Art, New York: Praeger, 1966
Lucie-Smith, Edward. Late Modern: The Visual Arts Since 1945, New York: Praeger, 1969
Lucie-Smith, Edward. Movements in Modern Art Since 1945, New York: Thames and Hudson, 1984
Mendelowitz, Daniel M. A History of American Art, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970
Orr-Cahall, Christina, ed. The Art of California: Selected Works from the Collection of the Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA: Oakland Museum, 1984
Osborne, Harold. Abstraction and Artifice in Twentieth-Century Art, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979
Osborne, Harold, ed. The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Art, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981
Plagens, Peter. Sunshine Muse: Contemporary Art on the West Coast, New York: Praeger, 1974
Restany, Pierre. Le Nouveau Realisme, Paris: Union Generale d'Editions, 1978
Rose, Barbara. American Art since 1900: A Critical History, New York: Praeger, 1967
Rubin, William, ed. "Primitivism" in 20th Century Art, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1984
Sammlung Hahn, Vienna: Museum Moderner Kunst, 1979
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: The Painting and Sculpture Collection, New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1985
Sandback, Amy Baker, ed. Looking Critically: 21 Years of Artforum Magazine, Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1984
Schiff, Gert. Images of Horror and Fantasy, New York: Abrams, 1978
Selz, Peter. Art in our Times: A Pictorial History 1890-1980, New York: Abrams, 1981
Wallis, Brian, ed. Art after Modernism: Rethinking Representation, New York: New Museum of Contemporary Art, 1984
Wilmerding, John. American Art, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1976
Who Was Who in America, Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, vol. 5, 1973
Who Was Who in American History--Arts and Letters, Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1975
Periodicals:
2005 Cotter, Holland, “Probing Fringes, Finding Stars,” The New York Times, Friday, April 15, 2005, p. B29 – B31 (review of opening exhibitions at New Walker Art Center Museum)
Schwendener, Martha, “Bruce Conner: Gladstone Gallery, New York,” Artforum
Magazine, April 2005, p. 181.
Stone, Katie, “Bruce Conner: Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY,” Frieze Magazine, April 2005, pg. 113-114.
Ollman, Leah, “Think of It As Another Form of Reincarnation: Reuse Is Now A Key Creative Technique. ‘Lost but Found’ Uses Norton Simon Holdings To Show Holdings To Show How It Came To Life,” Los Angeles Times, CalendarLive.com, January 18, 2005.
Chasin, Noah, “Bruce Conner: Gladstone Gallery, New York,” Time Out New York,
January 27 – February 2, 2005, pp. 58. Illustration: ROZ: NEGATIVE TREND,
January 3, 1978, printed 2004
Yau, John, “Poetry In Motion,” The American Poetry Review, January/February 2005, Vol
34. No. 1, p. 35 (Offset lithographs), Illustration: p. 35 BOOK ONE, #2; BOOK
ONE, #5; p. 36 CARDS, #1 (front); p. 37 CARDS, #1 (back)
2004 Schwendener, Martha, ARTFORUM, Critic’s Pick, “Bruce Conner,” Gladstone Gallery,
December 16, 2004 – January 29, 2005, website: www.artforum.com/picks/
1995 Green, David A., "Edgy Sketch: Bruce Conner's Beautiful Mysteries," Los Angeles Reader, July 21, 1 995, p. 14
Pagel, David, "ArtReviews," Los Angeles Times, June 29, 1995, p. F16
1994 Cummings, Paul, "Interview: Burce Conner Talks with Paul Cummings," Drawing , September-October 1994, pp. 55-59.
Baron, Todd, Review of Inkblot Drawings at Kohn Abrams, Artscene, January
1994, p. 12
Greene, David A. Review of Inkblot Drawings at Kohn Abrams, Art Issues, March 1994, P. 42
Marcus, Greil,"Die Gnostische Ader," Heaven Sent Magazine, June 1994, p. 44
1993 Kandel, Susan, "Review," Los Angeles Times, Thursday, December 23, 1993, p. F11
Pagel, David, "Review, Hypnotic Power," Los Angeles Times, Saturday, December 18, 1993, p. F14.
Baker, Kenneth, "Bruce Conner, Paule Anglim," review, ArtNews, December, 1993, p. 142.
Schwabsky, Barry, "Documents for a Secret Tradition: Bruce Conner & His Inkblot Drawings,” Print Collector's Newsletter, November-December, 1993, pp. 175-177.
Baker, Kenneth, "Bruce Conner Drawings," San Francisco Chronicle, September 8, 1993
Marcus, Greil, "Bruce Conner to MTV," film notes by Greil Marcus, Telluride Film Festival
1992 Marcus, Greil, "Bruce Conner: The Gnostic Strain," Artforum, December 1992, pp. 75- 79.
Morgan, Robert C., "After the Deluge, the Return of the Inner-Directed Artist," Arts, March 1992, pp. 49-55.
Settele, Christoph, "Bruce Conner: Film Work," VIPER, Lucerne, 33 pages
Baker, Kenneth, "Conners' Angels from Another World," San Francisco Chronicle, June 6, 1992, p. E1
Berkson, Bill, "Bruce Conner at SFMOMA," Art in America, p. 149
McDonald, Robert, "The Drawings of Bruce Conner," Vision Magazine, Spring 1992, p. 40
1991 Selwyn, Marc, Interview, Flash Art, January 1991, pg. 94-97
Kandel, Susan, "L.A. in Review," Arts, December, p. 89.
Lufkin, Liz, "The Beat Artist Once Removed," San Francisco Chronicle, Friday,
October 11, pp. E3, E4.
Pagel, David, "Bruce Conner: The Artist AS Scavenger," Los Angeles Times, Thursday September 19, p. F4.
Ollhman, Leah, "California Visions," Los Angeles Times, Tuesday April 2, pp. F1, F4.
The New Yorker, Monday April 1.
1990 McKenna, Kristine, "Out of the Shadows," Los Angeles Times, Tuesday, June 26, 1990, p.F-8, ill.
Frank, Peter, "Pick of the Week," L.A. Weekly, July 6-12 1990, p. 124, ill.
Martin, Victoria, "Slicing Up Complacency," Artweek, August 16, 1990, p.14, ill.
Appleton, Steven, "Bruce Conner," New Art Examiner, October 1990, p.40, ill.
Pagel, David, "Bruce Conner," Artscribe, November-December 1990, p.90-91, ill.
Baron, Todd, "Bruce Conner," Art Issues, November 1990, p.33, ill.
Weissman, Benjamin, "Bruce Conner," Artforum, November 1990, p.175.
1989 Marks, Ben, "The Poetics of Assemblage," Artweek, May 6, 1989, p. 1, ill.
Baker, Kenneth, "Fragments of Modern Experience," San Francisco Chronicle, August 6, 1989, p. 10.
1988 Solnit, Rebecca, "Orders and Question,"Artweek, August 20, 1988, p. 1.
1987 Reveaux, Tony, "Works by Bruce Conner," University Art Museum (Calender), January 1987, p.3, ill.
Pincus, Robert L., "Artist's Style is Slash, Burn," San Diego Union, March 12, 1987, p. D-8, ill.
Lufkin, Liz, "Shows we've Seen," Popular Photography, January 1987, p. 26, 28, ill.
1986 Solnit, Rebecca, "Intrepid Chameleon,"Artweek, March 15, 1986, p. 11, ill.
Shere, Charles, "Old Masters of Beat Span Generations," Oakland Tribune, August 19, 1986, p.C1, C3.
Roder, Sylvie, "Funk Artist turns Punk Photographer," Palo Alto Weekly, February 26, 1986, pp.37-38, ill.
Lewallen, Connie, "Photograms and Drawings by Bruce Conner," University Art
Museum (Calender), November - December 1986, p. 3, ill.
Jordan, Jim, "Souvenirs for the Future," Artweek, October 11, 1986, p. 12, ill.
Baker, Kenneth, "Uncompromising Beat Era Artists Still Going Strong," San Francisco Chronicle, August 29, 1986, p. 67.
Baker, Kenneth, "Seven for a Swan Song," Review, San Francisco Chronicle, August 17, 1986, pp. 12-13
1985 Palmer, Rebecca, "A Range of Experimentation," Artweek, September 7, 1985, p. 13, ill.
Geldzahler, Henry, "Art: Added Dimensions," Architectural Digest, May 1985,
pp. 244-245, ill.
1984 Lewis, Jo Ann, "Unfolding Images," Washington Post, March 4, 1984, p. F4.
1983 Winter, David, "Magic and Mystery in an Unusual Show by Bruce Conner," Peninsula Times Tribune, September 27, 1983, p. 4.
Van Proyen, Mark, "Sight/Vision: The Inward Gaze," Artweek, October 29, 1983,
p. 1 & 16.
Van Proyen, Mark, "Captured Ceremonies," Artweek, April 2, 1983, p. 4, ill.
Burkhardt, Dorothy, "Black Magic on Paper," San Jose Mercury News, September 25, 1983, p. 3.
Albright Thomas, "The Beat Artists Revisited," Review, San Francisco Sunday
Examiner and Chronicle, October 23, 1983, pp. 12-13.
Albright, Thomas, "Eerie Intimate Self-Portraits," San Francisco Chronicle, March 19, 1983, p.36, ill.
1981 Marechal-Workman, Andree, "Mysticism Continued: Bruce Conner," Artweek, August 15, 1981, p. 6, ill.
Levy, Mark, "Bruce Conner at North Point Gallery," Images and Issues, Winter 1981- 1982, p. 90-91, ill.
Albright, Thomas, "The Magical World of Bruce Conner," San Francisco Chronicle, July 23, 1981, p. 46, ill.
1980 Culpa, Mia, "Bruce Conner: Part Two," Damage, January 1980, pp. 6-8, ill.
"Bruce Conner," UP (Tokyo), Spring 1980, pp. 8-9, ill.
1980 Albright, Thomas, "Conner's 19th-Century Side," San Francisco Chronicle, June 11, 1980, p. 61, ill.
1979 "Bruce Conner," Damage, August-September 1979, p. 8-11, ill.
Albright, Thomas, "Reestablishing Contact with the 'Beat' Esthetic," This World, San FranciscoSunday Examiner and Chronicle, September 30, 1979, p. 41, 43.
1977 Tarshis, Jerome, "Bruce Conner is not Bruce Conner',"Art News, January 1977, pp. 80- 82, 86-87, ill.
Albright, Thomas, "Slouching Mortality and Inky Galaxies," Art News, January 1977, p. 90.
1976 Wilson, William, "A Ferus Wheel of Fortune," Los Angeles Times, section IV, p. 1, 4.
Ratcliff, Carter, "New York Letter," Art International, Summer 1976, pp. 29-30.
Fuller, Mary, "You're Looking for Bruce Conner, the Artist, or What is this Crap
You're Trying to Put Over Here?" Currant, May-July 1976, pp. 8-12, 58-59, ill.
Askey, Ruth, "The Ferus Gallery Remembered," Artweek, April 3, 1976, p. 5.
Albright, Thomas, "The Cream of the Shows," San Francisco Chronicle, November 11, 1976, p. 50.
Albright, Thomas, "At the Galleries," San Francisco Chronicle, September 11, 1976, p. 35.
1975 Wilson, William, "Romantic Rage Seeks Wisdom," Los Angeles Times, July 25, 1975, Section IV, p. 8.
Wilson, William, "Double-Edged Message in 'A Drawing Show'," Los Angeles Times, February 16, 1975, section IV, p. 62.
Stiles, Kristine, "Bringing Back the Beat Generation," Daily Californian, February 7, 1975, pp. 13-14, ill.
Kent, Tom, "Bruce Conner Photograms," Artweek, October 25, 1975, p. 3 ill.
Butterfield, Jan, "San Francisco," Art Gallery Magazine, March 1975, pp. 17, 58-59, ill.
"An Artist Who Gets Into His Work," San Francisco Chronicle, October 16, 1975, p. 50, ill.
Albright, Thomas, "The Beats - More Than Nostalgia," San Francisco Chronicle, February 1, 1975, p. 31, ill.
1974 Selz, Peter, "The Artist as Dactylographer," Art in America, July-August 1974, pp. 98-99, ill.
Haacke, Lorraine, "Conner at DMFA," Dallas Times Herald, December 1, 1974, p. F-3.
Frankenstein, Alfred, "A Lively Artistic Obituary," San Francisco Chronicle, February 28, 1974, p. 40.
Frankenstein, Alfred, "The Fingerprints of Artist Bruce Conner," This World, San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle, August 4, 1974, p. 31, ill.
Flanagan, Ann, "Bruce Conner's Cinematic Drawings," Artweek, November 9, 1974, p. 1, 16, ill.
Butterfield, Jan, "It ain't dead, New Yorkers just mugged it," Pacific Sun, March 21-27, 1974, p. 21, ill.
Bloomfield, Arthur, "A Micro-minded artist," San Francisco Examiner, October 16, 1974, p. 43, ill.
Albright, Thomas, "Mushrooming Visions from Artist Bruce Conner," San Francisco Chronicle, October 15, 1974, p. 40.
1972 Frankenstein, Alfred, "A Conner Family Show," San Francisco Chronicle, January 7, 1972, p. 44.
Bloomfield, Arthur, "The Family that Makes Art Together," San Francisco Examiner, January 16, 1972, p. 29, ill.
Anderson, Laurie, "Bruce Conner," Art News, November 1972, p. 89.
1971 Frankenstein, Alfred, "Etchings Based on Fantastic Collages," San Francisco Chronicle, August 12, 1971, p. 31.
Albright, Thomas, "Light and Conner: An Outstanding Exhibition," San Francisco Chronicle, May 4, 1971, p. 38.
1970 Doty, Robert, "Grotesque in American Art," Art and Artists, April 1970, p. 13-14, ill.
1968 "Savanarola in Nylon Skeins," Time, January 5, 1968, p. 50, ill.
1967 Wilson, William, "Elepaintism - Mammoth Brush with Psychedelic Colors," Los Angeles Times, May 17, 1967, Part IV, p. 1, 7, ill.
"San Francisco Vote Tally," San Francisco Chronicle, November 8, 1967, p. 1A.
Monte, James, "'Making it' with Funk," Artforum, Summer, 1967, p. 56.
Giuliano, Charles, "Bruce Conner," Artist's Proof, 7, 1967, p. 56-57, ill.
Frankenstein, Alfred, "A Confrontation with 'Funk'." This World, San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle, April 23, 1967, p. 27.
"Food Sculpture Exhibition Proves Delight to Audiences," Wichita Beacon, September 21, 1967, p. 11A.
Albright, Thomas, "A Look at Two Good Art Shows," San Francisco Chronicle, April 27, 1967, p. 43.
1966 Hopper, Dennis, "West Coast: The Scene," Art and Artists, May 1966, p. 68, ill.
1965 Valpy, Michael, "U.S. Exhibitor to Give Eating Display," Vancouver Times, February 1, 1965, p. 1.
Rykwert, J., "Mostra a Londra," Domus, February 1965, p. 46.
Driscoll, Edgar J., "Two Assemblage Exhibits of Contrast," Boston Globe, September 26, 1965, p. H-29.
Belz, Carl, "Pop Art, New Humanism and Death," Kulchur, Spring 1965, pp. 25, 29-30, ill. p. 33.
Willard, Charlotte, "Drawing Today," Art in America, October 1964, p. 60, ill.
1964 Ventura, Anita, "The Bay Climate," Arts, December 1963, p. 30, ill.
Monte, James, "Sculpture Steals the Show in the Eighty-Third Annual," Artforum, May 1964, p. 23-24, ill.
Frankenstein, Alfred, "A Break with Art Tradition," This World, San Francisco Sunday Chronicle, April 26, 1964, p. 22-23.
Burr, James, "London Galleries," Apollo, December 1964, p. 520.
"Art of Bits and Pieces," The Times (London), December 16, 1964, p. 7.
1963 Valenzuela, Elvira, "Wichitan's Work stirs Controversy," Wichita Eagle and Beacon Magazine, February 1963, cover, p. 2, 21, ill.
Stiles, Knute, "Bruce Conner, San Francisco Art Institute," Artforum, December 1963, p. 46, ill. p. 47.
"IV Biennale Internationale d'Arte (San Marino)," Art International, June 1963, p. 51, 60, ill.
Lindgren, Lawrence, "This year's FOTA breaks with tradition," Chicago Maroon, (University of Chicago), April 26, 1963, ill.
Leider, Philip, "California After the Figure," Art in America, October 1963, p. 76-77, ill. p. 80.
Frankenstein, Alfred, "Music and Art," This World, San Francisco Sunday Chronicle, November 17, 1963, p. 24-25.
Coplans, John, "Sculpture in California," Artforum, August 1963, p. 4, ill. p. 5.
"Bruce Conner Receives 1963 Nealie Sullivan Award of $1000," San Francisco Art Institute News, September 1, 1963, p. 1, 2.
Bogat, Regina, "Fifty California Artists," Artforum, 1:7, 1963, p. 25, ill. p. 26.
1962 Perkins, Constance, "Bruce Conner,"Artforum, August 1962, p. 6, 9, ill.
Nelken, Margarita, "La de Bruce Conner," Ezcelsior (Mexico City), February 25, 1962, p. 21-C.
Leider, Philip, "The Construction as an Object of Illusion," Artforum, 1:5, 1962, p. 40.
Leider, Philip, "Bruce Conner: A New Sensibility," Artforum, November1962, p. 30, 31, ill.
Langsner, Jules, "Art News from Los Angeles," Art News, October 1962, p. 50.
Coplans, John, "The New Painting of Common Objects," Artforum, November 1962, p. 29.
Ashton, Dore, "Art," Arts and Architecture, January 1962, p. 33.
1961 Restany, Pierre, "Die Beseelung des Objektes," Das Kunstwerk, July-August 1961, p. 38, ill. p. 55.
Picard, Lil, "New Yorker Kunstbrief," Das Kunstwerk, November 1961, p. 56, ill. p. 62.
Chipp, Herschel, "Art News from San Francisco," Art News, February 1961, p. 54.
1960 Waite, Elmont, "That's not Murder-That's Art." San Francisco Chronicle, November 13, 1960, p. 3.
Rexroth, Kenneth, "Shockers by a Midwest Artist...," Highlight, San Francisco
Examiner, November 13, 1960, p. 14.
Murphy, George, "Nylons and Box - What is It?" San Francisco Examiner, December 6, 1960, p. 1, 21; IV, 10, ill.
Fried, Alexander, "Artist Defines 'Child' Meaning," San Francisco Examiner, January 15, 1960, section 1, p. 19.
Frankenstein, Alfred, "The Batman Makes its Bow with Modern 'Junk'," This World, San Francisc Sunday Chronicle, November 13, 1960, p. 27, ill.
Curtin, Andrew, "The Unliked 'Child'," San Francisco News-Call Bulletin, January 14, 1960, p. 21, ill.
Coates, Robert M., "The Art Galleries," The New Yorker, January 30, 1960, p. 87.
Canaday, John, "Art: A Wild, but Curious, End-of-Season Treat," New York Times, June 7, 1960, p. 32.
Ashton, Dore, "Art," New York Times, January 22, 1960, p. 19.
1959 Wallace, Dean, "Local Artists are Toying with Something akin to Dada," This World, San Francisc Sunday Chronicle, January 18, 1959, p. 22.
Frankenstein, Alfred, "Bruce Conner Exhibit - Magic in Disorder," San Francisco Chronicle, September 30, 1959, p. 41.
Cross, Miriam Dungan, "Shocking 'Beat' Art Displayed," Oakland Tribune,
November 29, 1959, p. 4-C.
1958 Frankenstein, Alfred, "Music and Art," This World, San Francisco Chronicle, June 15, 1958, p. 31.
Public Collections:
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
University Art Museum, Berkeley
Rockhill Nelson Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
Addison Gallery, Andover, Massachusetts
Worchester Art Museum, Worchester, Massachusetts
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska
St. Louis Art Museum
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Netherlands Film Museum, Amsterdam
Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Oakland Museum, Oakland, California
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
Achenbach Foundation, San Francisco
Guggenheim Museum, New York
Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington
University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson.
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,Washington D.C.
Steinberg Gallery, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
Elder Art Gallery, Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, Nebraska
Richard Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis
Museum of Art and Architecture, University of Missouri, Columbia Missouri
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey
National Museum of American Art, Washington D.C.
Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California
de Saisset Museum, University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, California
Musee Moderna, Stockholm, Sweden
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO |
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