…ON UPPER Fillmore, in the heart the new high toned Bohemia, the Batman Gallery has opened with a bang. The owners are fine people, the decor is original and effective, the place is crowded – opening night it was jam packed, and the best of all, the pictures sell. And well they might. They are by Bruce Conner, a young man full of beans. 

The bathroom humor on the reverse side of Conner’s collage is in strange but interesting contrast to the studied subtlety of the obverse – with its formalized shapes and textures achieved with materials that can only be described as debris. The duality in the collage – even though Conner may have meant it as a double edged joke – still points up a duality of purpose and of practice which is evident in the other paintings in the show.