William Conger

William Conger (1937-) is a Chicago-based, American painter and educator, known for a dynamic, subjective style of abstraction descended from Kandinsky

William Conger's unique paintings represent an on-going investigation of abstraction that subtly fuses figural and landscape references to a vocabulary of irregular geometric forms. Conger's paintings are a process of linear and color discovery. He connects shapes by stringing them together along linear paths. The linear connections create a web of ambiguous positive or negative space, figure or ground. This enables him to modulate the shapes, add atmosphere, play with illogical light and allude to things in a suggestive way. By this means his work carries classical abstraction into a new visual territory.