Tony Conway was born in Manchester, New Hampshire and lives and works in New York City.
Photographic images are the starting point of Conway’s works. The photographs are digitally manipulated, printed and combined with graphite drawings and acrylic colors on semi-transparent sheets of plastic. The most immediately noticeable quality of the images is their multilayered structure, both as material objects and as pictures, resulting from the combination of photography, painting, and sculpture. Though each of the various layers of the pictures carries its own information, they do not completely merge, still retaining their independence in mutual interplay. The snapshot that provides the basis of each picture isolates a single moment. However, the three dimensional structure of the images reveals itself ultimately as a temporal process onto itself. The resulting abstractions are neither rigidly systematic nor entirely arbitrary. Just like remembered images, where a non dogmatic universality is achieved through a slow process of settling, certain details are retained in Conway’s images while others completely disappear. The moment appears less frozen than slowed down, while at the same time the shapes are condensed into archetypal forms. Even the subtle hues of the images recall the subjective coloring of images in memory.
Education
1970-75 Keene State College, Keene NH
1971-72 MIT, Cambridge MA
Solo Exhibitions
2015 Layers, Galerie Deschler, Berlin
2010 Man On The Floor, Galerie Deschler, Berlin
2010 Krisen & Utopien, Kunstverein Wuppertal Germany
2005 Senior and Shopmaker Gallery, New York
2005 Transit, Galerie Deschler, Berlin
2003 Senior and Shopmaker Gallery, New York
2003 Paintings, Galerie Deschler, Berlin
2001 Senior and Shopmaker Gallery, New York
Group Exhibitions
2014 Summer Setting, Galerie Deschler, Berlin
2011 Winter Setting, Galerie Deschler, Berlin
2010 Technical Matters, Galerie Deschler, Berlin
2009 We’re All Going To Die, Curator Ron Keyson, Sue Scott Gallery, New York
Photographic images are the starting point of Conway’s works. The photographs are digitally manipulated, printed and combined with graphite drawings and acrylic colors on semi-transparent sheets of plastic. The most immediately noticeable quality of the images is their multilayered structure, both as material objects and as pictures, resulting from the combination of photography, painting, and sculpture. Though each of the various layers of the pictures carries its own information, they do not completely merge, still retaining their independence in mutual interplay. The snapshot that provides the basis of each picture isolates a single moment. However, the three dimensional structure of the images reveals itself ultimately as a temporal process onto itself. The resulting abstractions are neither rigidly systematic nor entirely arbitrary. Just like remembered images, where a non dogmatic universality is achieved through a slow process of settling, certain details are retained in Conway’s images while others completely disappear. The moment appears less frozen than slowed down, while at the same time the shapes are condensed into archetypal forms. Even the subtle hues of the images recall the subjective coloring of images in memory.
Education
1970-75 Keene State College, Keene NH
1971-72 MIT, Cambridge MA
Solo Exhibitions
2015 Layers, Galerie Deschler, Berlin
2010 Man On The Floor, Galerie Deschler, Berlin
2010 Krisen & Utopien, Kunstverein Wuppertal Germany
2005 Senior and Shopmaker Gallery, New York
2005 Transit, Galerie Deschler, Berlin
2003 Senior and Shopmaker Gallery, New York
2003 Paintings, Galerie Deschler, Berlin
2001 Senior and Shopmaker Gallery, New York
Group Exhibitions
2014 Summer Setting, Galerie Deschler, Berlin
2011 Winter Setting, Galerie Deschler, Berlin
2010 Technical Matters, Galerie Deschler, Berlin
2009 We’re All Going To Die, Curator Ron Keyson, Sue Scott Gallery, New York