Jean Conner
{{Short description|American artist (born 1933)}}
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Jean Conner {{nee}} Sandstedt (born 1933) is an American artist.{{cite book|author=Thomas Albright|title=Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980: An Illustrated History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aGN3vXcZl74C&pg=PA268|year=1985|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-05193-5|page=268}}{{Cite web |url=http://sheldonartmuseum.org/pdf/16_Conner_guide_D.pdf |title=Some Place ... Not Too Far Away: Bruce and Jean Conner at the University of Nebraska |last=Vigneault |first=Marissa |publisher=Sheldon Museum of Art|year=2016}}
Biography
Jean Conner was born in Lincoln, Nebraska and earned her BFA from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, going on to earn her MFA from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Conner was part of the "Rat Bastard Collective".{{Cite news|url=https://hyperallergic.com/378641/rat-bastard-protective-association-susan-inglett-2017/|title=A Celebration of the Rat Bastards: Joan Brown, Bruce Conner, Jean Conner, Jay DeFeo, George Herms, Wally Hedrick, and Others|date=2017-05-14|work=Hyperallergic|access-date=2018-03-22|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Jean-Conner/21752D71F3E970D9|title=Jean Conner - MutualArt|website=www.mutualart.com|language=en|access-date=2018-03-08}} She married Bruce Conner in 1957.{{Cite news|url=http://therumpus.net/2017/02/the-rumpus-mini-interview-project-70-jean-conner/|title=The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #70: Jean Conner|date=2017-02-09|work=The Rumpus.net|access-date=2018-03-22|language=en-US}} They moved to San Francisco.{{Cite news |url=http://www.american.edu:80/cas/museum/gallery/2015/yes-glue.cfm |title=YES! Glue: A Half Century of Collage by Bruce and Jean Conner |last=Rasmussen |first=Jack |date=2015-04-04 |work=YES! Glue exhibition catalog |access-date=2018-05-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160703115934/http://www.american.edu/cas/museum/gallery/2015/yes-glue.cfm |archive-date=2016-07-03 |url-status=dead |publisher=American University |language=en-US }}
Conner has five works in the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sfmoma.org/artist/Jean_Conner|title=Jean Conner|website=SFMOMA|language=en|access-date=2018-03-22}} In 2017, her work was shown at Karma Gallery.{{Cite news|url=https://hyperallergic.com/416031/jean-conner-wally-hedrick-deborah-remington-franklin-williams-karma-2017/|title=Four Bay Area Iconoclasts and Eccentrics|date=2017-12-10|work=Hyperallergic|access-date=2018-03-22|language=en-US}}{{Cite news|url=http://www.artcritical.com/2017/12/09/john-mendelsohn-on-hedrick-williams-remington-and-conner/|title=Painterland: Four From California, at Karma - artcritical|date=2017-12-09|work=artcritical|access-date=2018-03-08|language=en-US}} The San Jose Museum of Art will present the first comprehensive solo exhibition of her work with an accompanying publication from May 7-Sept 25, 2022.
Work
Jean Conner creates intimate, moody collages with images of women and the natural world, which are often appropriated from magazines and advertisements. She appeared as part of the small but influential scene of the Bay Area in the 1950s and 60s, and until recently she rarely showed her work in public.{{Cite web|title=Jean Conner|url=https://karmakarma.org/artists/jean-conner/bio/|access-date=2020-07-10|website=Karma|language=en}} Conner's work is the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art,{{Cite web|title=Jean Conner|url=https://whitney.org/artists/18620|access-date=2020-09-25|website=whitney.org|language=en}} San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,{{Cite web|title=Conner, Jean|url=https://www.sfmoma.org/artist/jean_conner/|access-date=2020-09-25|website=SFMOMA|language=en-US}} the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the San Jose Museum of Art.
References
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External links
- Hosfelt Gallery: Jean Conner [http://hosfeltgallery.com/artist/jean-conner/]
- http://www.nighthawknyc.com/category/artists/jean-conner/
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20150727045401/http://www.american.edu/cas/museum/gallery/2015/yes-glue.cfm YES! Glue: A Half-Century of Collage by Bruce and Jean Conner]
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Category:20th-century American women artists
Category:21st-century American women artists
Category:Artists from San Francisco
Category:Artists from Lincoln, Nebraska
Category:University of Nebraska–Lincoln alumni
Category:University of Colorado Boulder alumni
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