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Exhibition Detail William Conger William Conger: Gouaches Roy Boyd Gallery 739 North Wells Street Chicago, IL 60654 October 29th, 2010 - December 7th, 2010
	William Conger, Gouache 11 , 2009, Gouache on Rag Paper , 12" X 10.25" image; framed 5.5" X 3.5" © Courtesy of the artist and Roy Boyd Gallery

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"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."