Bill Conlon

Artist’s Biography from Cove Street Arts:

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.