Mark Van Proyen on Jean Conner

Jean Conner: Collage is an exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Art, a retrospective of 76 of her collages spanning six decades of production. 

"The works included in the San Jose exhibition are modestly scaled and sometimes deliciously small, facilitating their seduction of curious viewers into their fanciful otherworldliness.  This attribute connects Conner’s work to the longstanding tradition of Surrealism, in both its automatist and veristic aspects, simultaneously disrupting conventional streams of pictorial coherence while also adding manic elaborations to them."

- Mark Van Proyen, Squarecylinder.com