Connor received her Bachelors of Fine Arts degree in 1967 from the Rhode Island School of Design. In 1969 she acquired her Masters degree in photography from the Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology. She was a professor of photography from 1969-1999 in the Photography Department at the San Francisco Art Institute. Her work has appeared in countless exhibitions throughout the United States and the world. Prominent museums such as the Art Institute of Chicago, the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles include her works in their permanent collections.
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Connor received her Bachelors of Fine Arts degree in 1967 from the Rhode Island School of Design. In 1969 she acquired her Masters degree in photography from the Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology. She was a professor of photography from 1969-1999 in the Photography Department at the San Francisco Art Institute. Her work has appeared in countless exhibitions throughout the United States and the world. Prominent museums such as the Art Institute of Chicago, the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles include her works in their permanent collections.
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D-485
Recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant in 1979-1980, Brown has exhibited widely during his artistic career that expands more than three decades. He has had solo exhibitions at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island; Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa; Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana and Elliot Smith Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri. His work resides in the permanent collections of the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida; the Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, Minnesota; the Newark Museum of Art, New Jersey and many other public and private collections throughout the United States. In this mixed media work D-485, the artist uses orbs and spheres that seem to refer to space and geometry. The uncertainty of what it means engages the viewer?s imagination to explore space, compute an equation or search for deeper meaning of the universe.