Bruce Conner, 74, beat artist and filmmaker Jul 13, 2008
Soon after their marriage, he and his wife moved to San Francisco, and Conner fell in with figures who would later become well-known members of the Beat Generation, including the visual artists Wallace Berman, George Herms and Jay DeFeo and the poets Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Michael McClure. Conner led a peripatetic life in the '60s. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
Beat-era artist Bruce Conner dies Jul 13, 2008
Throughout his career Conner collaborated with many visual artists and musicians including David Byrne, Jay DeFeo, Wallace Berman and Brian Eno. His collages were made from old stockings, photographs, broken dolls and other discarded items. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Bruce Conner; noted Bay Area artist who explored mortality in his works; at age 74 Jul 13, 2008
In 1957, he moved to San Francisco, where his friends included beat-era poet Michael McClure and painter Jay DeFeo. In the early '60s, Mr. Conner lived briefly in Mexico City, where he experimented with hallucinogenic drugs, Boswell said. (Boston Globe)
In area galleries this year, artists took chances, with many interesting results Dec 27, 2007
"Applaud the Black Fact," the Nielsen Gallery's elegant retrospective of the works of Jay DeFeo, an artist best known for her gargantuan and deeply layered painting "The Rose" (1958-1966), showed a surprising side to DeFeo. When she wasn't immersed in that epic enterprise, she was making spare, graceful visual haikus, in which she deployed simple forms, stepping neatly but deeply into spiritual matters. (Boston Globe)
Jay DeFeo's graceful fascination with form Oct 11, 2007
Jay DeFeo, a San Francisco artist of the Beat Generation, is known for one monumental painting, "The Rose," which she painted and repainted from 1958 to 1966 ... Jay DeFeo: Applaud the Black FactAt: Nielsen Gallery, 179 Newbury St., through Oct. 27 ... Jay DeFeo: Applaud the Black Fact. (Boston Globe)
Berman show sheds light on dark side of Beats Oct 19, 2006
Many familiar names appear: Bruce Conner, Michael McClure, Diane di Prima, George Herms, Jess (1923-2004), Joan Brown (1938-1990), Jay DeFeo (1929-1989) and others. Visitors who remember the 1997 "Beat Culture and the New America, 1950-1965" exhibition at the old de Young Museum will catch many echoes of it here. (San Francisco Chronicle)
They left their art in San Francisco Sep 21, 2006
Among the missing items are a painting by the late Jay DeFeo, a two-time National Endowment for the Arts fellowship recipient and highly regarded Bay Area artist. "It went to a branch library," says Susan Pontious, deputy director of the city's public-art program. (Orlando Sentinel -- Entertainment)
