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Bruce Conner

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Two West Coast Art Communities Outside the Mainstream

by John Yau August 21, 2021August 20, 2021

One thing seems pretty clear about both groups: they separated themselves from mainstream culture, including the art world. This is practically unheard of today.

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The Secret Paintings of a Hermetic Filmmaker

by John Yau May 19, 2019May 20, 2019

Jordan Belson wanted the viewer to see only what was in front of his or her face — to scrutinize his paintings from up close.

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Jay DeFeo and the Anarchic Spirit of Surrealism

by John Yau April 7, 2018April 6, 2018

For DeFeo, Surrealism was not a technique, but a state of seeing and experiencing everyday life.

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When Art Refuses to Let Go

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli September 23, 2017September 23, 2017

Delirious at the Met Breuer is an exhibition filled with beautiful but comparatively polite works by habitually transgressive artists.

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A Celebration of the Rat Bastards: Joan Brown, Bruce Conner, Jean Conner, Jay DeFeo, George Herms, Wally Hedrick, and Others

by John Yau May 14, 2017May 12, 2017

Shortly after coming to San Francisco, Conner formed what he christened the “Rat Bastard Society.” Conner told the curator Peter Boswell that the name was fitting for “people who were making things with the detritus of society, who themselves were ostracized or alienated from full involvement with society.”

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Looking Back at the Strange and Surly History of Bay Area Funk Art

by Clayton Schuster April 18, 2017April 18, 2017

It is disheartening to see this 50th anniversary of the seminal exhibition Funk pass by without so much as a nod from the art world.

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A Multimedia Jungle of Moving Images

by Michael Blum January 31, 2017February 1, 2017

The Whitney Museum’s Dreamlands gathers a century of immersive moving image art, cutting across time and technology.

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It is Important to Let Someone Know

by John Yau January 1, 2017January 1, 2017

Throughout his life, Bruce Conner believed that even if you could not beat them, that didn’t mean you had to join them.

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The Early Life of Bruce Conner and His Rat Bastard Bohemia

Avatar photo by John Seed October 27, 2016October 30, 2016

To say that Conner was an outsider who also wanted to belong is to barely scratch the surface of his paradoxical persona.

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Blurred Boundaries and Other Connections

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli October 22, 2016October 21, 2016

A mix of blue-chip names and energetic younger artists on the Lower East Side is further evidence of the increasingly blurred boundaries among Manhattan’s art districts.

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Tracking the Beat Generation Across Three Continents

by Joseph Nechvatal September 21, 2016September 22, 2016

PARIS — Though almost entirely lacking a female presence — artist Jay DeFeo and poet Diane Di Prima being the exceptions that prove the rule — the Centre Pompidou’s airily laid out retrospective of the Beat Generation is otherwise flawless.

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An Artist Who Possessed a Third Eye

by John Yau July 9, 2016October 30, 2016

Working in painting, drawing, assemblage, film, photography, photograms, performance, collage, and printmaking, Bruce Conner (1933–2008) made more discrete bodies of work across more mediums than any other postwar artist.

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