Object Poetry

Michael Kohn Gallery Los Angeles · Hollywood

Exhibition on view: Jun 11, 2026 - Sep 12, 2026

Object Poetry presents sculptures by Ian Burns, Bruce Conner, Tony Oursler, Chiffon Thomas, and Cajsa von Zeipel that use sound, light, video, movement, and found objects to inhabit the space where language lapses. Spread across three participatory environments at Michael Kohn Gallery, the works invite viewers to engage physically and emotionally—less as observers than as participants. These forms are not surrogates for ideas. They are their terrestrial manifestations.

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.

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