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ASSEMBLED: Bruce Conner / Jean Conner / Anonymous / Anonymouse / Emily Feather / Signed in Blood
23 January - 6 March 2021
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ASSEMBLED: Bruce Conner / Jean Conner / Anonymous / Anonymouse / Emily Feather / Signed in Blood

Hosfelt Gallery is thrilled to present its first exhibition in collaboration with the Conner Family Trust - a show which mines 60 years of work by Bruce Conner and Jean Conner (as well as by Anonymous, Anonymouse, Emily Feather and Signed in Blood), across the genres of drawing, collage, assemblage and painting - highlighting shared themes and recurring motifs.  117 works, some from the private collection of Jean Conner and many never exhibited before, illustrate the artists' intertwined interests in mysticism, religion, social and cultural norms, the natural world and the human body. 

 

Bruce Conner (1933 - 2008) and Jean Sandstedt (b.1933) met on a blind, double date in 1954 at the University of Nebraska, where they both studied art. They married on September 1, 1957 and left that night for San Francisco, where they quickly fell in with the Beat-era community of artists and poets.  The Conners, like other Bay Area artists, refused to conform to the expectations defined by the art establishment of New York, instead embracing the lack of commercial viability of their artworks and their outsider status in ways that led to highly experimental and original art forms.   

 

Then, in the autumn of 1961, spurred by Bruce's fear of the possibility of nuclear war with the Soviet Union and the intention to live cheaply, the Conners moved to the Juárez neighborhood of Mexico City.  The year they lived there proved highly inspirational.   Forays to historic churches and pyramids; Dia de los Muertos, and the funeral rites of strangers; a hunt for psilocybin mushrooms; the birth of their son; and day-to-day living in a foreign city and culture led them to independently create related bodies of work that would presage concepts, motifs and techniques they'd explore for the rest of their lives.  

 

This exhibition - by tracing those seminal, symbolic vocabularies and technical strategies - surveys the practices of two remarkable 20th century voices.   

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Works
  • Bruce Conner MOM'S COLLAGE, 1961 mixed media assemblage 24 x 11 x 6 in 61 x 27.9 x 15.2 cm
    Bruce Conner
    MOM'S COLLAGE, 1961
    mixed media assemblage
    24 x 11 x 6 in
    61 x 27.9 x 15.2 cm
  • Black rectangular piece with long black strip of paper with gradient edge to white. There's a floral design in the top corner.
    Bruce Conner
    UNTITLED, 1990
    photocopy collage
    13 3/4 x 8 1/4 in
    34.9 x 21 cm
  • Black and whit etching of four women in victorian era dresses. Three of the women have a piano covering their heads.
    Bruce Conner
    THE PIANOFORTE SISTERS MARCH 13, 1992, 1992
    engraving collage
    10 x 14 1/2 in
    25.4 x 36.8 cm
  • Etching of antique table with large pearl ring and two floating orbs. One is magnifying the details on the desk and the other has an eye in the center.
    Anonymous
    JEWELRY AND TABLE JULY 21, 2001, 2001
    engraving collage
    3 x 5 3/8 inches
    7.6 x 13.7 cm
  • Tiny and delicate ink blot designs in a rectangular shape with designs ascending in triangle form.
    Emily Feather
    INKBLOT DRAWING DECEMBER 12, 2003, 2003
    ink on paper
    12 x 15 inches
    30.5 x 38.1 cm
  • Black and white collage of etchings depicting small room with barrel vaulted window with person climbing ladder.
    Bruce Conner
    UNTITLED, 2005
    photocopy collage
    6 x 4 1/2 in
    15.2 x 11.4 cm
  • Delicate inkblot drawings in blue ink.
    Emily Feather
    INKBLOT DRAWING NOVEMBER 24, 2005, 2005
    ink on paper
    5 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches/14.6 x 16.5 cm
  • Abstract painting of primary colors. There are painterly details on the center with larger washes of color towards the edges of the painting.
    Jean Conner
    AZTEC WARRIOR, 1990
    watercolor on paper
    30 1/8 x 22 inches
    76.5 x 55.9 cm
  • Two gallon milk jugs on foggy beach.
    Jean Conner
    TWO NUDISTS AT THE BEACH, 1996
    paper collage
    7 7/8 x 7 1/2 in
    20 x 19.1 cm
  • Black leaves dispersed on a beige scroll.
    Anonymous
    FALLEN LEAVES OCTOBER 7, 2001, 2001
    ink and collage on paper and silk
    36 x 17 in
    91.4 x 43.2 cm
  • Very delicate lines in ink that resemble open fish skeletons, overlapping one another.
    Anonymouse
    INKBLOT DRAWING OCTOBER 24, 2000, 2000
    ink on paper
    22 7/8 x 29 in
    58.1 x 73.7 cm
  • Black etching collage photocopied onto blue paper. Collage depicts hand in foreground, in front of building with hypnotic circle, snake and jewel floating above hand.
    Bruce Conner
    UNTITLED, c. 2000
    photocopy collage
    6 x 4 1/2 in
    15.2 x 11.4 cm
  • Bruce Conner INKBLOT DRAWING OCTOBER 24, 2000, 2000 ink on paper 8 x 7 in 20.3 x 17.8 cm
    Bruce Conner
    INKBLOT DRAWING OCTOBER 24, 2000, 2000
    ink on paper
    8 x 7 in
    20.3 x 17.8 cm
  • Forrest with white birch trees with large egg shell in foreground. Various shapes floating over the scene.
    Jean Conner
    THE EIDER'S EGG SEPTEMBER 12, 2012, 2012
    paper collage
    5 1/8 x 3 3/4 in
    13 x 9.5 cm
  • Black and white drawing with nine blank squares creating an X across the page. Black squiggles resemble fur like patterns around the cubes.
    Bruce Conner
    NINE OF SQUARES MARCH 16, 1983, 1983
    ink on paper
    11 7/8 x 9 in
    30.2 x 22.9 cm
  • Black and white abstract drawing depicting three white dots and white linear forms.
    Bruce Conner
    WART FEBRUARY 16, 1987, 1987
    ink on paper
    12 x 9 in
    30.5 x 22.9 cm
  • Collage depicting acrobat leaping off a trampoline that is the upside down tail feathers of a humming bird flying downwards.
    Jean Conner
    HUMMINGBIRD, 1984
    paper collage
    13 1/2 x 10 in
    34.3 x 25.4 cm
  • Black cat head pasted onto bear body peering through passenger window of car.
    Jean Conner
    BEARCAT, c. 1980
    paper collage
    5 1/4 x 6 3/8 in
    13.3 x 16 cm
  • Delicate swirling lines in fine ink overlapping to create organic forms.
    Bruce Conner
    INKBLOT DRAWING SEPTEMBER 8, 1999, 1999
    ink on paper
    7 1/4 x 9 3/4 in
    18.4 x 24.8 cm
  • Fine and delicate ink blot drawings in vertical lines featuring extremely intricate details.
    Bruce Conner
    INKBLOT DRAWING JUNE 3, 1998, 1998
    ink on paper
    8 1/2 x 4 3/4 in
    21.6 x 11.9 cm
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Press
  • Assembled, 2021, installation view

    Other Exhibits Worth Visiting: ASSEMBLED

    Jonathan Curiel, SF Weekly, March 4, 2021
  • Jean Conner, Painting with Fringe, 1964, collage, 16 3/8 x 11″; Bruce Conner, Mom’s Collage, 1961, assemblage, 24 x 11 x 6″

    Bruce and Jean Conner @ Hosfelt

    David M. Roth, Squarecylinder, February 6, 2021
Events
  • On the left, Jodi Throckmorton's headshot features black framed glasses, a silver necklace and a black dress. She has thick dark hair. Todd Hosfelt's headshot is on the right, wearing a dark grey suit and thin framed glasses.

    In Conversation: Jodi Throckmorton and Todd Hosfelt

    A Virtual Conversation Discussing the Work of Bruce and Jean Conner 5 Feb 2021
  • a large black inkblot resembling a rorschach test

    In Conversation: Laura Hoptman and Todd Hosfelt

    A virtual tour and conversation 24 Feb 2021
  • an oval drawing with black tear drops along the edge and flame like silhouettes emerging from the center.

    In Conversation: Rachel Federman and Todd Hosfelt

    A Virtual Conversation On Drawing 27 Jan 2021
News
  • In Conversation: Laura Hoptman & Todd Hosfelt

    In Conversation: Laura Hoptman & Todd Hosfelt

    Read more
  • In Conversation: Jodi Throckmorton and Todd Hosfelt

    In Conversation: Jodi Throckmorton and Todd Hosfelt

    A Virtual Conversation Discussing the Work of Bruce and Jean Conner Read more
  • HG Magazine Issue no. 25

    HG Magazine Issue no. 25

    ASSEMBLED on view at the gallery; plus Liliana Porter, Lordy Rodriguez, Patricia Piccinini, Cornelius Völker Read more
  • HG Magazine Issue no. 24

    HG Magazine Issue no. 24

    ASSEMBLED: Bruce Conner / Jean Conner / Anonymous / Anonymouse / Emily Feather / Signed In Blood; plus Isabella Kirkland, Patricia Piccinini, Russell Crotty, Jutta Haeckel, Gallery Climate Coalition Read more

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