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Bruce Conner
Artist's Name: Bruce Conner
Preferred medium: video / film
birth year: 1933
Nationality: US
City: San Francisco

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Bruce Conner - Profile

Coming of age during the Sixties, Bruce Conner was at the forefront of a Cultural Revolution set against the stark backdrop of the Vietnam War, the Cold War, and the Summer of Love. In the face of an increasingly unpopular war and the prevailing Conservative Capitalist Culture, Conner and his peers sought an alternative lifestyle and value system on the margins of society. Consciousness raising experimentation took the form of mystical studies and mind altering drugs, all interests which manifested themselves in Conner's work in film, assemblage, photography, and drawing. Some forty years later, in the face of an increasingly unpopular war and prevailing Conservative Capitalist Culture, we look upon Conner's work from this period with renewed interest. Conner's personal journey begins in the dense cross-hatched black nights of the early 1960's opening up to light filled ephemeral scumblings of peyote induced wanderings. As the work develops, both religious and secular symbols are introduced as touchstones or markers along the way. Intricate tantric mandalas and suggestive Rorchach or inkblot drawings follow. Standing alone, the single photogram captures a wisp of the artist's body as it glows for an instant bright white against a stark black ground. It is said that there are "many paths to enlightenment", Bruce Conner leads the way. (Susan Inglett Gallery)

important exhibitions from Bruce Conner

Exhibition Location City Country Date
Bruce Conner Kunsthalle Zürich Zürich CH 02.04.2011
4. berlin biennale für zeitgenössische kunst 2006 Berlin Biennale für zeitgenössische Kunst Berlin DE 25.03.2006
Bruce Conner: Die 70er Jahre Kunsthalle Wien Wien AT 08.10.2010
Abstract Resistance Galerie Jürgen Georg Wolfstädter Frankfurt DE 01.06.2010
7. Gwangju Biennale 2008 Gwangju Biennale Gwangju KR 05.09.2008
Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981 The Museum of Modern Art - Grand Avenue - MOCA Los Angeles US 01.10.2011
Bruce Conner: Mabuhay Gardens Berkeley Art Museum, BAM/PFA Berkeley US 03.06.2008
Midnight Party Walker Art Center Minneapolis US 11.03.2012
I AM BRUCE CONNER. I AM NOT BRUCE CONNER. Ursula Blickle Stiftung Kraichtal DE 10.09.2010
September 11 MoMA PS1 - Contemporary Art Center Long Island City US 11.09.2011

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Galleries representing
Bruce Conner:

Arion Press
Michael Kohn Gallery
Paule Anglim Gallery
Susan Inglett Gallery

Collections representing
Bruce Conner

Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
Foundation 20 21
Norton Simon Museum
Orange County Museum of Art - OCMA
Pomona College Museum of Art
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
The Museum of Modern Art - Grand Avenue - MOCA
University Museum of Contemporary Art, UMCA
Walker Art Center