.Jean Conner at Museum of Art

San Francisco-based artist Jean Conner finally gets her due with the first solo museum exhibition of her extraordinary six-decade career. Conner’s collages, composed of images cut from vintage large-format color magazines like Life, defy the rules of reality in whimsical ways. Divers merge with dancers; models melt into exotic swaths of wilderness; a chef holds a bat on a spoon. The thematically organized exhibition leads viewers through Conner’s concerns: war, the environment and representations of women. These collages level a fascinating, humorous critique of mass-media across the 21st century all while luxuriating in its technicolored allure.

Jean Conner 

Opens Fri, 6pm, Free

Museum of Art, San Jose

Addie Mahmassanihttps://www.addiemahmassani.com/
Addie Mahmassani is a poet based in Santa Cruz. She holds a PhD in American Studies from Rutgers University-Newark and is currently an MFA student in creative writing at San Jose State University. There, she is a Teaching Associate as well as the lead poetry editor of Reed Magazine, California's oldest literary journal. She also surfs, sings and loves a part-sheepdog named Lou.

LEAVE A REPLY

Please enter your comment!
Please enter your name here

Latest Giveaways

Enter for a chance to win tickets to ABRA Cadabra - A Tribute to ABBA at the Fox Theatre on April 4 or Heritage Theatre on April 7. Drawing March 26, 2025.
Enter for a chance to win a 4-Pack of tickets to Pacific Coast Dream Machines in Half Moon Bay for April 27. Drawing April 16, 2025.
spot_img
music in the park, psychedelic furs
10,828FansLike
8,305FollowersFollow
Metro Silicon Valley E-edition Metro Silicon Valley E-edition