Jean Conner Sandstedt (born 1933) is an American artist.

Biography

Jean Conner was born in

Lincoln, Nebraska Lincoln is the capital city of the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Lancaster County. The city covers with a population of 292,657 in 2021. It is the second-most populous city in Nebraska and the 73rd-largest in the United Sta ...

and earned her BFA from the

University of Nebraska, Lincoln A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, t ...

, going on to earn her MFA from the

University of Colorado, Boulder The University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder, CU, or Colorado) is a public research university in Boulder, Colorado. Founded in 1876, five months before Colorado became a state, it is the flagship university of the University of Colorado syst ...

. Conner was part of the "Rat Bastard Collective". She married

Bruce Conner Bruce Conner (November 18, 1933 – July 7, 2008) was an American artist who worked with assemblage, film, drawing, sculpture, painting, collage, and photography. Biography Bruce Conner was born November 18, 1933 in McPherson, Kansas.His well- ...

in 1957. They moved to

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. Conner has five works in the collection of the

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. In 2017, her work was shown at Karma Gallery. 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. Conner's work is the collections of the

Whitney Museum of American Art The Whitney Museum of American Art, known informally as "The Whitney", is an art museum in the Meatpacking District and West Village neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942), ...

, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the San Jose Museum of Art.

References

External links

*Hosfelt Gallery: Jean Conne

*http://www.nighthawknyc.com/category/artists/jean-conner/
YES! Glue: A Half-Century of Collage by Bruce and Jean Conner
1933 births Living people 20th-century American women artists 21st-century American women artists Artists from San Francisco Artists from Lincoln, Nebraska University of Nebraska–Lincoln alumni University of Colorado Boulder alumni {{US-artist-stub