William Conlon

Moxie (2017)

Moxie (2017)

William Conlon is a painter and printmaker with studios in New York, NY, and Great Diamond Island, Maine. He was educated at the School of Visual Arts (CERT 1963) and Yale School of Art & Architecture (BFA and MFA in 1967). He is presently Professor Emeritus of Visual Arts, Fordham University.

Conlon’s practice is committed to advancing the tradition of abtraction. Over a long career he has developed a dictionary of iconic shapes and forms along with color that interact i a complex and ambiguous pictorial space. His paintings present to the viewer as a visual metaphor of the complexity and fragility of our time.

His work is in the following collections: Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo; Brooklyn Museum; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Cincinnati Art Museum; Dallas Museum of Art; Everson Museum, Syracuse; and the Grand Rapids Arts Museum.

EDUCATION

  • 1967 Yale University, BFA/MFA

  • 1963 School of Visual Arts, Certificate

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  • 2002 “A Painter’s View of Sicily Photographs,”
    The Center Gallery, New York, NY

  • 1997 Vesti Daine Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

  • 1991 Peregrine Gallery, Dallas, TX

  • 1988 Hokin Gallery, Palm Beach, Fl

  • 1987 Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY

  • 1986 Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY

  • 1985 Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY

  • 1981-82 Ten-Year Retrospective, Museum of Art,
    Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh

  • 1981 Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY

  • 1980 Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY

  • 1977 Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY

  • 1972 Reese Palley Gallery, New York, NY

  • 1970 Reese Palley Gallery, New York, NY

  • 1968 “Contemporary Art at Yale,” Yale University Art Gallery,
    New Haven, CT 

                

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

  • Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

  • Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX

  • Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI

  • Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY

  • Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY

  • Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA

  • The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • 2003 Faculty Exhibition, Pushpin Gallery, Fordham University

  • 2000 Hokin Gallery, Miami, Fl

  • 1998 Faculty Exhibition, The Center Gallery, Fordham University

  • 1995 “Color, Sign, System, Sensibility” Stark Gallery, New York, NY

  • 1993 “Hunter College M.F.A. Faculty Artists: 1981-1993” Hunter College Art Gallery, Hunter College of the City University of New York, New York, NY

  • December 1991 - January 1992, "Abstract Painting: The 90's" Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY

  • 1991 "Physicality: An Exhibition on Color Dimensionality in Painting," organized by George Hofma, Hunter College Art Gallery, Hunter College of the City University of New York, New York, NY

  • 1989 "Fifty Years of Collecting IBM" IBM Gallery of Art and Science, New York, NY

  • 1988 "Abstract Painting" The McNay Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX

  • 1987 "Emmerich Gallery Artists" Hokin Gallery, Miami FL

  • 1986 "Emmerich Gallery Artists" Chicago Art Fair, Chicago, IL

  • 1985 "Charcoal Drawings ó 1980-1985" Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, TX

  • 1984-85 "Space Complex: The Invention of Space" Tour Venues: Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, Scotland; Arts Council Gallery, Belfast, Ireland;  Axiom Gallery, Cheltenham, England; Sunderland Arts Centre, Sunderland, England

  • 1983 "Art and Technology Offset Prints" Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA

  • 1982 "Six Abstract Painters" Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, MD

  • 1982 "From Pong to Pac-Man" DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA

  • 1981 "Twenty Artists from the Yale University Art School, 1950-1970" Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

  • 1981 "American Drawings in Black and White from 1970-1980" Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

  • 1980 "Painting and Sculpture Today 1980" Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN

  • 1980 "Subject: Space" Pratt Institute Manhattan Center Gallery, New York, NY

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