Jean Conner, Painting with Fringe, 1964, collage, 16 3/8 x 11″; Bruce Conner, Mom’s Collage, 1961, assemblage, 24 x 11 x 6″
Drawing, it has often been said, is a portal to an artist’s soul. If so, Assembled: Bruce Conner / Jean Conner / Anonymous / Anonymouse / Emily Feather / Signed in Blood, an exhibition of works on paper organized by Todd Hosfelt and the Conner Family Trust, is a door wide-open: One hundred seventeen works line the walls of this warehouse-sized gallery, revealing previously unknown aspects of the artists’ practices and reiterating much of what we know about Bruce Conner from two recent shows: a 2016 retrospective (It’s All True) at SFMOMA and an exhaustive exhibition of works on paper (Somebody Else’s Prints) mounted at the San Jose ICA a year earlier.
