At The Pool: Dale Conner, His Legacy and Pursuit of Peace and Sustainability

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Dale Conner

Dale Conner

We are honored and excited to showcase the late artist Dale Conner. This legacy exhibition of his fifty-year career inspires and provokes thought long after his passing. Together, let us carry forward his vision of a world transformed by the power of art and the resilience of the human spirit.

Join us for a reception at The Pool, A Near Southside Arts Space this Thursday, July 18th, from 6pm to 8pm. This exhibition will run till Wednesday, July 31st.

As a young boy, Conner fantasized about piloting a fighter aircraft, and after college he worked in a factory that manufactured five-hundred pound bombs intended to be used on the people of Vietnam. His romantic notions about war were quickly crushed by the reality of the ominous gray steel canisters designed solely for the purpose of destruction. He left that job after one month.

Despite the works’ dark and shadowy subject matter, Conner’s palette can be bright and cheery, adding a keen sense of irony. His paintings are revelatory; bursting with an animated yet controlled impasto. His portraits are evocative and expressive and, at times, piercing and mysterious. The work speaks both to the aesthetic and to the ethical.

Presented by J. Peeler Howell Fine Art and The Pool, A Near Southside Arts Space.