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Mon, Sep 16, 2024 12:00PM EDT - Mon, Sep 30, 2024 08:30PM EDT
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"A Selection of Great Art by People Who Know What They Like." Funds raised through TDC's 2024 benefit auction will provide critical support for our ambitious roster of exhibitions, publications, education initiatives, and public programs. Bidding begins on Monday, September 16 at 12pm EST, and closes on Monday, September 30 at 8:30pm EST. The Drawing Center rbrickman@drawingcenter.org
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Bruce Conner, "UNTITLED Inkblot Drawing", 2002
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Bruce Conner, "UNTITLED Inkblot Drawing", 2002

Estimate: $12,000 - $12,000
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$7,000
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Bruce Conner
"UNTITLED Inkblot Drawing", 2002
Ink on paper
16 ⅜ x 6 ½ inches (41.5 x 35.2 cm)
Courtesy of the Conner Family Trust, San Francisco, and Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York and Paula Cooper Gallery

 

Selected by Gary Garrels

 

Born in 1933 in McPherson, Kansas, Conner was an iconoclast and prankster who refused to be constrained to a single artistic persona or style. The non-conformist ethos of San Francisco was a natural magnet, and he moved there with his new wife, the artist Jean Conner, immediately after their wedding in 1957. Conner worked in many media: painting, sculpture, assemblage, collage, film, photography, drawing and printmaking. In 1975 he began making inkblots: mirrored forms made from delicate lines and splatters. The technique was a perfect complement to Conner’s quest for continual reinvention, seemingly born of accident and surprise, fully open to the viewer’s imagination and interpretation. He died in San Francisco in 2008, after a long illness.

Overall Dimensions
Height: 13.38 in
Width: 6.50 in

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