After six decades of art-making, Jean Conner gets her moment

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 changing. The concurrent exhibitions, “Jean Conner: Collage” at the San Jose Museum of Art and “Jean Conner: Inner Garden” at the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, mark the first solo museum outings in the artist’s six-decade career, promising much-belated recognition.