Congratulations on the show. These paintings seem be more curvilinier and
more graceful than I recall of you work the last time I looked.
I am curious about,
"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 being true to
himself and of restoring unity of purpose to abstraction, thus rescuing it
from decadence."
The claims that your work is a more direct expression of the unconscious and
is more purley surrealistic seem problematic. But I don't know that you
even agree with Kuspit, let alone approved the text.
Mike Mallory
----- Original Message -----
From: "William Conger" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 8:08 AM
Subject: exhibition
I'm pleased to announce an exhibition of my new paintings:
see www.royboydgallery.com
wc
