William Conlon

American, 1941

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 University School of Art & Architecture (BFA and MFA 1967).

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

His work is in the following collections: The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; 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 Art Museum.