Alston Conley
Associate Professor of the Practice, Studio Art
Studio Art Major Coordinator
Studio Art Study Abroad Advisor
Alston Conley
B.F.A.
Contact
Devlin Hall 432
Telephone: 617-552-2237
Email: alston.conley.1@bc.edu
Education
- Diploma and Fifth Year Diplomas, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
- B.F.A, Tufts University, 1976
Courses
Collage and Mixed Media
Painting I: Foundations
Painting Plus: Collage
Senior Minor Project
Biography
Alston Conley teaches classes in painting, collage, and occasionally a summer Drawing course in Venice, Italy. He was the Chief Curator of the McMullen Museum at Boston College from 1988 to 2005. He has curated several exhibitions at the McMullen that focus on contemporary art, including Re/Dressing Cathleen: Contemporary Works by Irish Women Artists, and Original Visions: Shifting The Paradigm, Women's Art, 1970-1996. He is also a painter who has investigated natural form and landscapes in his recent artworks and investigated cultural identity in his earlier frescoes.
Professor Conley has received grants and fellowships for his artwork from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Fulbright-Hayes Grant for Italy, and the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Ireland.
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Shows
- 2017 - "New England Sky," McMullen Museum, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA. Downloadable exhibition catalog (pdf)
- 2015 – "Northern Sky," O'Neill Library Level Three Gallery, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA. Downloadable exhibition catalog (pdf) Audio tour
- 2015 - "Venice Paintings: Way After Canaletto," Office of International Programs, Halley House, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
- 2013 - "Northern Sky: Stoney Conley," Rhodes Art Center Gallery, Northfield Mount Herman School, Gill, MA
- 2013 - "New Work," Patricia Ladd Carega Gallery, Sandwich, NH (two-person show)
- 2012 - "Landscape: A Fresh Perspective," Patricia Ladd Carega Gallery, Sandwich, NH (two-person show)
- 2010 - "Way After Canaletto: Paintings by Mary Armstrong and Stoney Conley," Winfisky Gallery, Salem State College, MA (two-person show)
- 2008 - "Summer Daze: Maine Paintings," West Island Gallery, Georgetown, ME. Downloadable exhibition catalog of Alston Conley's work in this show (pdf)
- 2007 - Von Schlippe Gallery of Art, University of Connecticut, Groton, CT (two-person show)
- 2007 - Nesto Gallery, Milton Academy, Milton, MA (two-person show)
Selected Group Shows
- 2017 - Patricia Ladd Carega Gallery, Sandwich, NH
- 2017 - "Summer Daze," Centre Street Arts Gallery, Bath, ME
- 2015 - Patricia Ladd Carega Gallery, Sandwich, NH
- 2015 - "The Piano Roll Project: Shared Sensibilities," Bates Bill in Association with Museum Lewiston-Auburn, ME
- 2014 - Patricia Ladd Carega Gallery, Sandwich, NH
- 2013 - "The Silver Shore," Graham Gallery, New York, NY
- 2011 - "Holiday Show," Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, ME
- 2011 - "Drawing Connections," Siena Art Institute Onlus, Siena, Italy
- 2011 - "Opposites Attract," Patricia Ladd Carega Gallery, Sandwich, NH
- 2011 - "At Work: Boston College Faculty Artists," Lorand Gallery, Boston, MA
- 2010 - "Art Connection," Patricia Ladd Carega Gallery, Sandwich, NH
- 2009 - Patricia Ladd Carega Gallery, Sandwich, NH
- 2008 - "First Traces," Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
- 2008 - "Itinerant Artists," Patricia Ladd Carega Gallery, Sandwich, NH