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Sensitive to Art & its Discontents

Jean 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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Jess, a West Coast Visionary

by John Yau August 24, 2019September 6, 2019

It is clear to me now that seeing Jess’s art was the beginning of my awareness that there was a multitude of what John Ashbery called “other traditions.”

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Four Bay Area Iconoclasts and Eccentrics

by John Yau December 10, 2017December 8, 2017

For New Yorkers, the artists Jean Conner, Wally Hedrick, Deborah Remington, Franklin Williams range from little-known and neglected to unknown altogether.

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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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