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Bruce Guldner Conner

Bruce Guldner Conner (1933 - 2008) was active/lived in Kansas, California.  Bruce Conner is known for Abstraction, collage, funk art and film making.

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, an   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 12471 characters.]  Artist bio

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Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Bruce Guldner Conner available:    Wallace Berman,  John Altoon,  Jay DeFeo,  Hassel Smith,  De Wain Valentine,  Tony Smith,  Mary Ann Corse,  Kelley Walker,  Larry Stuart Bell,  John McLaughlin,  Frederick Hammersley,  Carroll Dunham,  Lisa Yuskavage,  Robert Alan Bechtle,  Kenneth Price,  John Harvey McCracken,  Peter Halley,  Lynda Benglis,  Philip Taaffe,  John Saccaro,  Richard Tuttle,  Ruth Lanier Asawa,  Leon Polk Smith,  Pat Steir



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Keywords and Quick Facts for Bruce Guldner Conner


   Keywords 
Art Method
  • Collage and/or Decoupage
  • Easel Painting
  • Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
  • Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art MediaArt StyleArt Subject
  • Figure, Figurative Humans
  • Religion, Mysticism, Spirituality
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • Mexico and/or Central America
Art School
  • Brooklyn Museum Art School/Institute, Student
Chronology
  • Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
  • Abstraction Specialty
Exhibition of Museum
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art

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