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Conner Contemporary Art is a fine art

Fine art

Fine art or the fine arts encompass art forms developed primarily for aesthetics and/or concept rather than practical application. Art is often a synonym for fine art, as employed in the term "art gallery"....

gallery in Washington, DC founded by Leigh Conner in 2000. The gallery represents diverse contemporary artists working in all media. The curatorial program is unified by strong conceptual bases

Conceptual art

Conceptual art is art in which the concept or idea involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns. Many of the works, sometimes called installations, of the artist Sol LeWitt may be constructed by anyone simply by following a set of written instructions...

, including identity

Identity (social science)

Identity is a term used to describe a person's conception and expression of their individuality or group affiliations . The term is used more specifically in psychology and sociology, and is given a great deal of attention in social psychology...

, materiality, historicity and popular iconography

Pop art

Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art challenged tradition by asserting that an artist's use of the mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the perspective of fine art...

, which define and adjust contemporary art's function within the current of cultural change. In addition to its exhibition schedule, the gallery implements artistic initiatives such as performances

Performance art

In art, performance art is a performance presented to an audience, traditionally interdisciplinary. Performance may be either scripted or unscripted, random or carefully orchestrated; spontaneous or otherwise carefully planned with or without audience participation. The performance can be live or...

, web-casts

Webcast

A webcast is a media presentation distributed over the Internet using streaming media technology to distribute a single content source to many simultaneous listeners/viewers. A webcast may either be distributed live or on demand...

and off-site projects. Conner Contemporary also participates regularly in international art fairs including Pulse London, Pulse Miami, Pulse New York and MACO, Mexico City.

Artists

*gogo art projects

Conner Contemporary Art launched *gogo art projects in fall 2006 to incubate emerging and experimental art. *gogo evolved from Conner's annual BFA

Bachelor of Fine Arts

In the United States and Canada, the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, usually abbreviated BFA, is the standard undergraduate degree for students seeking a professional education in the visual or performing arts. In some countries such a degree is called a Bachelor of Creative Arts or BCA...

/MFA

Master of Fine Arts

A Master of Fine Arts is a graduate degree typically requiring 2–3 years of postgraduate study beyond the bachelor's degree , although the term of study will vary by country or by university. The MFA is usually awarded in visual arts, creative writing, filmmaking, dance, or theatre/performing arts...

graduate exhibition, Academy, begun in 2000. Promoting new talent engendered a strategic initiative to mobilize promising artists toward the next professional level.

*gogo Artists

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