Bruce Conner: Inkblot & Felt Tip Pen Drawings

Michael Kohn Gallery Los Angeles · Hollywood

Exhibition on view: Feb 18, 2026 - Apr 25, 2026

Michael Kohn Gallery presents inkblot and felt-tip drawings by Bruce Conner made from the early 1960s to the 2000s, highlighting a lesser-known core of his practice. Using folding, mirroring, and repetitive mark-making, Conner explores symmetry, automatism, and chance. These works reveal drawing as a sustained site of inquiry, where authorship loosens and meaning stays fluid, in dialogue with his films and assemblages.

Artist

Bruce Conner

7:07 PMClaude responded: Bruce Conner (1933–2008) was a restlessly inventive American artist whose assemblages, films, drawings, prints, and photographs refused any single category.Bruce Conner (1933–2008) was a restlessly inventive American artist whose assemblages, films, drawings, prints, and photographs refused any single category. Working from the Bay Area beat scene onward, he layered found materials, ritual, and dark humor into work that probed mortality, mass media, and the atomic age. CROSSROADS and REPORT remain landmarks of experimental cinema.

Works

Artworks in this exhibition