WILLIAM CONGER's oil paintings are formal compositions of color, shape and line. They are both organic and geometric, flat and illusionist. Titles often hint at landscape, architecture, figures, and history. But they don't depict anything specific. Instead, ambiguous references and meanings are complex and open to subjective interpretation.
Conger's paintings celebrate the dynamic, willful energy and narratives of contemporary urban life existing between order and disorder, stasis and change. In that respect they symbolize art greedily remaking pictorial space in the rigid presence of art history. In his newer work, brightly colored and freely thrusting shapes and looping lines are interwoven with rectilinear and organic elements expressing anxiety scarcely contained by orderly calm and the dreamer's atmospheres of regret and longing. |
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"Bandit"
Oil on Canvas
60" x 60", 2008 |
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"Dervish"
Oil on Canvas
50.5" x 60.5", 2008
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"Geisha"
Oil on Canvas
36" x 36", 2008 |
"Parkway Series III"
Oil on Wood
12" x 12", 2008 |
"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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