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Jean Conner creates intimate, moody collages with images of women and the natural world, which are often appropriated from magazines and advertisements. She appeared as part of the small but influential scene of the Bay Area in the 1950s and 60s, and until recently she rarely showed her work in public. [10]
Aug 16, 2022 · It took some six decades, but artist Jean Conner has finally made her solo museum debut, with not one but two exhibitions in California’s Bay Area.
May 25, 2015 · Jean Conner’s art-making practice encompasses painting and drawing in addition to collage, the medium for which she is best known. Her imagined scenes —playful and uncanny, but formally sophisticated — are knotty riddles in which people, images, and places come together in extraordinary, and often impossible, ways.
May 6, 2022 · See the first solo museum exhibition of Jean Conner, a San Francisco-based artist who creates collages from color magazines since the 1950s. Explore her playful, humorous, and subversive works that challenge mass-media representations of women, war, nature, and technology.
Jul 1, 2022 · Though the painter and collage artist Jean Conner worked alongside such seminal Bay Area artists as her husband Bruce, Joan Brown and Jay DeFeo, she’s seldom mentioned in the same breath. That’s...
May 6, 2022 · Until now. Conner’s first solo show, “Jean Conner: Collage,” opens at the San José Museum of Art on Friday, May 6 — just a week before her 89th birthday on May 15. Featured in the exhibition...
Jean Conner: Collage will feature collages from the 1950s to the present and will highlight Conner’s whimsical imagination and clever critiques of mass media representations of women, war, and the environment.
