{"id":12828,"date":"2022-07-04T13:34:38","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T17:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/?p=12828"},"modified":"2022-07-04T13:35:50","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T17:35:50","slug":"jean-conner-collage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/collage-exhibitions\/jean-conner-collage\/","title":{"rendered":"Jean Conner: Collage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Blue Pyramid<\/em> by Jean Conner
10.75″x9.375″; cut and pasted printed paper; 1970. Collection San Jos\u00e9 Museum of Art. Museum purchase with funds provided by the Lipman Family Foundation, 2018.09.01.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

COLLAGE ON VIEW<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jean Conner: Collage<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

at the San Jose Museum of Art in San Jose, California, USA
6 May-25 September 2022<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

“Jean Conner: Collage” is the first museum solo exhibition of San Francisco-based artist Jean Conner (born 1933, Lincoln, Nebraska), bringing long overdue recognition to the 88-year-old artist\u2019s extraordinary work. The exhibition features collages from the 1950s to the present and highlights Conner\u2019s whimsical imagination and clever critiques of mass media representations of women, war, and the environment. It includes rarely seen materials from the Conner Family Trust, new acquisitions by SJMA, and works from public museums and private collections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paper collage represented the majority of her output since she moved to San Francisco in 1957. Conner\u2019s early collages include newsprint and paint in abstract compositions, and her more figurative works of that decade, such as Nixon<\/em> (1959), were made from black-and-white images. Her approach to making art from everyday objects and images was echoed in the culture around her: the Beat Generation artists in San Francisco who embraced an ethos of experimentation and rebelled against traditional art practices and economic materialism. Resourceful and unconventional, these artists practiced assemblage through various mediums such as photography and sculpture. By 1960, she was using color magazines almost exclusively. She would create seductive and humorous scenes from images cut out of large-format magazines, exploring the aspirations and fears of postwar modern life as they were reflected in publications such as Life Magazine<\/em> and Ladies\u2019 Home Journal<\/em>. Conner reveled in color and figuration, depicting flamboyant scenes as excessive and strange as the era\u2019s advertisements, as in Tomato Soup <\/em>(1960), a bold, crimson collage in which a spoonful of tomato soup doubles as a looking glass for a manicured finger applying matching ruby lipstick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Too Many Cooks<\/em> by Jean Conner
10″x9.375″; cut and pasted paper; 1970. Courtesy of The Conner Family Trust and Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco. \u00a9 Conner Family Trust, San Francisco and Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Her observations of technological advancements can also be read in such works as Adding Machine<\/em> (1969), in which synchronized dancers spring from a computer\u2019s numbered keys in an orchestrated explosion superimposed over a scene of war-wrought destruction. Strange ecologies emerge in Octopus <\/em>(1982), which shows a reef diver overcome by a giant octopus rising from a swamp, as a blue shark swims across a blue sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition was curated by Rory Padeken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(text adapted from the museum’s press materials)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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INFORMATION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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COLLAGE ON VIEW Jean Conner: Collage at the San Jose Museum of Art in San Jose, California, USA6 May-25 September 2022 “Jean Conner: Collage” is the first museum solo exhibition of San Francisco-based artist Jean Conner (born 1933, Lincoln, Nebraska),…<\/p>\n

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