Adolph Konrad - Closer Look

At all Conrad lives in a small town in the country of Warren County and they're in a studio overlooking the musky valley he turns the commonplace into poetry. This is very complex. Getting a little bit out of hand. That is often referred to as the New Jersey painter. When he moved to New if the city claims him as its own. But Conrad's work has been praised in galleries and museums around the country. His paintings have hung in the Metropolitan Museum of Art the Whitney and now have permanent homes in the Newark Museum and the Montclair art museum in discussing his work. Conrad says it isn't easy to explain just why he loves to paint. The simplest definition of the simplest reason I think I go back to is. That psychologist Dr. Rank and he called it the whale to the sound of a mystical but I can't think of a better one. But I think of it through I think everyone has that desire for faith to organize for some accept a gift. To think that the mess we've got there can be gotten.

From Congress. The world for me. Living in a place people. Create a world of light and shadow of past and present. But while each of

those. It includes 50 paintings and a dozen during the past 30 years. It's one of the newer paintings in the exhibit. Based on the view from studio where he lived for over 30 years. After living in town in 1958 he

developed the style for which he is perhaps best known. This painting anniversary was one of the first group transfer figures became an important part of his work. Secret Garden done a short time later contains many of the same elements present in anniversary. The house is the same but in this painting I went into the opposite direction whereas the first one this flat distant in this. I went into depth and to make up for what was lacking in the other not lacking but using the same material but exploiting it and just going in different directions.

What was your reaction when you saw the retrospective of all of your work. It was a shock. I learned a good deal about my past painting the paintings that I have looked at very closely. But I did I was able to trace some sort of continuity that even the latest paintings I can trace the foundation early Huber's. Point of view and so on. But I think sometimes personally I feel much too much emphasis of what I have done in the past. Getting sort of tired of Victorian houses and I certainly wouldn't paint some of them. And I think it is much more important to think what's going to happen. And I think that's why the record retrospective should be it should not only sum up the past but also point to it. And Conrad It's very damning.