Bruce Conner / MATRIX 102

Bibliography & Exhibition History

Works in MATRIX:
Drawings: lent by the artist, courtesy Smith Anderson Gallery, Palo Alto, 22 x 20 1/2" (unframed), Pelikan ink on BFK paper.
1. July 27, 1974.
2. July 31, 1974.
3. August, 18, 1974.
4. August 30, 1974.
5. October 1, 1974.
6. October 6, 1974.
Photograms: made with Edmund Shea, 1975, lent by Fraenkel Gallery, S.F.; dimensions are for unframed works.
1. Angel, 85 x 39".
2. Untitled Angel, 67 x 40".
3. Flame Angel, 96 x 40".
4. Untitled Angel, 96 x 40".
5. Angel Kiss, 96 x 40".
6. Kiss Angel, 96 x 40".

Selected one-person exhibitions:
Alan Gallery, NY, '60; Batman Gallery, S.F., '60; Ferus Gallery, L.A., '62; Robert Fraser Gallery, London, '65; Institute of Contemporary Art, Phila. '67 (catalogue); San Francisco Art Institute, '71; Martha Jackson Gallery, N.Y., '72; Quay Gallery, S.F., '74; M.H. de Young Museum, S.F., '74 (catalogue); Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, CA, '83, '86; The Art Museum Association of America, S.F., Bruce Conner: Photograms, '85 (traveled, catalogue).

Selected group exhibitions:
The Museum of Modern Art, NY, The Art of Assemblage, '61 (catalogue); University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, Funk Art, '67 (catalogue); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Sculpture of the 60s, '67 (catalogue); Dallas Museum of Art, TX, Poets of the Cities, '75 (catalogue); Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Paris/New York, '77 (catalogue); The Oakland Museum, CA, 100 Years of California Sculpture, '82 (catalogue); Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, Biennial, '82 (catalogue); The Museum of Modern Art, NY, Primitivism in Twentieth Century Art, '84 (catalogue); Museum Ludwig, Cologne, W. Germany, Europa/Amerika, '86 (catalogue).

Selected bibliography about the artist (see also catalogues under exhibitions):
Reveaux, Anthony. Bruce Conner (St. Paul: Walker Art Center, 1981) (films).
Plagens, Peter. Sunshine Muse: Contemporary Art on the West Coast (N.Y.: Praeger, '74).
Albright, Thomas. Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980: An Illustrated History (Berkeley: UC Press, '85).
Selz, Peter. Art in a Turbulent Era (Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, '85).

MATRIX is supported in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Federal Agency, Mrs. Paul L. Wattis, the T. B. Walker Foundation, and the Alameda County Art Commission's County Supervisors' Art Support Program.