t has been said that there is no challenge too great for Dick Marconi. He was a varsity quarterback in high school and college, the Illinois State Champion of the Golden Gloves award in boxing and at age 59 a driver in the Long Beach Grand Prix, all despite being blind in one eye. Marconi chooses to see his blindness as a challenge rather than a handicap, and it is this outlook and determination he applies to his art.

e first began to paint in the 1960’s, where many times after a long 12-hour work day he would return home eager to indulge in his true passion of painting. Over the next three decades Marconi’s many successes in the business world did not allow adequate time and energy to devote to his art. In the 1990’s, Dick began to create abstract forms using mixed media and found objects. These rapid and expressive non-objective paintings have obscured the typical figure-ground composition, laying the groundwork for his signature paint technique "Color Fusion" and his inclusion as the one of the century's new artistic art icons.