Bruce Conner, BREAKAWAY (still), 1966, 16mm to 35mm, blow up, black and white, sound duration: 5 minutes. © Conner Family Trust. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.
February 21 – July 18, 2026
Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles
Curated by Douglas Fogle, BRUCE CONNER / RECORDING ANGEL includes seven of Bruce Conner’s iconic film works spanning nearly five decades of his practice. Presented in an alternating sequence across four different screens, the exhibition will foreground Conner’s experimental cinematic analyses of 20th century America, consumerism, and alternative ways of seeing through his signature manipulation of light, sound, and found footage.
This survey of Conner’s radically innovative, lifelong cinematic output both explores the structural limits of the medium of film and highlights his poetic and biting cultural critique of the dark side of the American Dream.