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Bruce Conner, who died in San Francisco on July 7, led more lives in his 74 years than most of us could begin to imagine. An unpredictable and inveterate trickster, he made sculptures, collages, films, prints, drawings, paintings, photos and light shows; he even stood for political office. He didn't hesitate to drop each craft and move on to the next when he felt he had exhausted the opportunities for mind-expanding magic and mischief. He pronounced his own death twice before the real one got him, including the words "works by the late Bruce Conner" in a 1959 exhibition invitation.
