by Ruth Crnkovich

’Beauty is truth, truth beauty,’—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know~John Keats (Ode on a Grecian Urn) 

I first met William Conger around ten years ago when I was curating That 70s Show for a  gallery in the suburbs of the greater Chicago region. I found him to be a quiet unassuming man although his paintings with broad areas of color and bold linear statements….

READ FULL STORY: Truth and Beauty: Thoughts on William Conger’s Paintings at Zolla-Lieberman Gallery.