Chicago, IL
Details
- Dimensions
- 13.5ʺW × 1ʺD × 11.5ʺH
- Styles
- Abstract
- Art Subjects
- Abstract
- Frame Type
- Framed
- Period
- 2010s
- Country of Origin
- United States
- Item Type
- New
- Materials
- Marker
- Paint
- Pen and Ink
- Condition
- Mint Condition, No Imperfections
- Color
- Avocado
- Description
- William Conger (born 1937) is a Chicago-based, American painter and educator, known for a dynamic, subjective style of abstraction descended … more William Conger (born 1937) is a Chicago-based, American painter and educator, known for a dynamic, subjective style of abstraction descended from Kandinsky, which consciously employs illogical, illusionistic space and light and ambiguous forms that evoke metaphorical associations. He is a member of the "Allusive Abstractionists," an informal group of Chicago painters self-named in 1981, whose paradoxical styles countered the reductive minimalism that dominated post-1960s art. In 1982, critic Mary Mathews Gedo hailed them as "prescient prophets of the new style of abstraction" that flowered in the 1980s. In his essay for Conger's fifty-year career retrospective, Donald Kuspit called Conger art-historically daring for forging a path of subjective abstraction after minimalism had allegedly purged painting of an inner life. Despite being abstract, his work has a strong connection to Chicago's urban, lakeside geography and displays idiosyncratic variations of tendencies identified with Chicago Imagist art. A hallmark of Conger's career has been his enduring capacity for improvisation and discovery within self-prescribed stylistic limits. less
Chicago, IL
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