"WILLIAM CONGER's abstractions are doubly original: formally innovative, by way of their complicated dynamics, and thus important from a modernist point of view; and psychoaesthetically innovative, for their abstract forms express the unconscious more directly than Chicago fantastic imagery, suggesting that Conger's abstractions are more purely surrealistic...and their formal brilliance makes them aesthetically persuasive...by fusing fantastic imagery and pure formalism he has found the means of bineg true to himself and of restoring unity of purpose to abstraction, thus rescuing it from decadence."
Donald Kuspit, catalog essay 2009
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"Gouache 11"
Gouache on Rag Paper
5.5" X 3.5" image;
12" X 10.25" framed 2009 |
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"Gouache 12"
Ink and Gouache on Rag Paper
5.5" X 3.5" image;
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"Gouache 8"
Ink and Gouache on Rag Paper
5.5" X 3.5" image;
12" X 10.25" framed 2009
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"Gouache 10".
Ink and Gouache on Rag Paper
5.5" X 3.5" image;
12" X 10.25" framed 2009 |
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"Gouache 14"
Ink and Gouache on Rag Paper
5.5" X 3.5" image;
12" X 10.25" framed 2009 |
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"Gouache 15".
Ink and Gouache on Rag Paper
5.5" X 3.5" image;
12" X 10.25" framed 2009 |
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"Gouache 21".
Ink and Gouache on Rag Paper
3.5" X 4" image;
12" X 10.25" framed 2009 |
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"Gouache 20"
Ink and Gouache on Rag Paper
5.5" X 3.5" image;
12" X 10.25" framed 2009 |
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"Gouache 22"
Ink and Gouache on Rag Paper
4" X 3.5" image;
12" X 10.25" framed 2009 |
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"Gouache 28"
Ink and Gouache on Rag Paper
4.5" X 6" image;
10.25" X 12" framed 2009 |
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"Gouache 23".
Ink and Gouache on Rag Paper
3.5" X 4" image;
12" X 10.25" framed 2009 |
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"Kabuki"
Oil on Canvas
60" x 96", 2008 |
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"Bandit"
Oil on Canvas
60" x 60", 2008 |
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"Player"
Oil on Linen
60" x 60", 2008
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"Geisha"
Oil on Canvas
36" x 36", 2008 |
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"Dervish"
Oil on Canvas
50.5" x 60.5", 2008
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"Parkway Series III"
Oil on Wood
12" x 12", 2008 |
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"Parkway Series I"
Oil on Wood
12" x 12", 2007 |
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"Inca"
Oil on Wood
20" x 16", 2008 |
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"Parkway Series VII"
Oil on Wood
12" x 12", 2008 |
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