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Connie Zehr is a conceptual artist born in 1938.
Professor since 1982 at the Center for the Arts of Claremont Graduate University in California. His material of choice is sand, of different colors and collected in different locations.
Influenced by the work of Claes Oldenbur, she began making stitched sculptures, filling them only partially, first with plastic beads, then with sand, so that some parts were solid, others soft. Read the full biography

Connie Zehr is a conceptual artist born in 1938.
Professor since 1982 at the Center for the Arts of Claremont Graduate University in California. His material of choice is sand, of different colors and collected in different locations.
Influenced by the work of Claes Oldenbur, she began making stitched sculptures, filling them only partially, first with plastic beads, then with sand, so that some parts were solid, others soft. Naturally, the use of sand was decisive. He further investigated the versatility of sand, creating cones on flat surfaces which he manipulated to create shapes linked to the human body.
In 1974, Zehr exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Crafts in Chicago. In 1975 she arrived at the Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial Exhibition in New York City with “Red Carpet,” seventeen thousand two hundred and eighty square inches of red sand and raw baked clay shaped like pieces of torn paper.
His art is transitory, impermanent like human existence. His works no longer exist once the exhibition is over, Zehr leaves no trace: there are no landscapes by Van Gogh or sculptures by Bernini, only photographic images of past installations.