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Robert Williams


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Biography

Kent Williams has built up a formidable reputation as a powerful contemporary draftsman and painter. His is a bold realism with combined attributes of abstraction and neo-expressionistic sensibilities. His work is characterized by strong gestural forms combined with areas of layered and arresting detail, rendered with rich dynamic brushwork.

Williams’ approach to his subjects is often subjective and intense. Whether through multi-figured compositional complexity and suggestive narrative, or with the straight-forward lone human form, there is often autobiographical narrative at play. Favorite models, friends, and the artist himself all play a role in the human story of his paintings.

Williams is represented by MK Projects, Los Angeles, CA, and Evoke Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM.

Publications

  • Kent WIlliams: Ophthalm, hardcover, text by Alex Ross, 3A Publishing, Kowloon, Hong Kong

  • Kent Williams: Eklektikos, hardcover, text by Peter Frank and Alex Ross, ASFA, Pacific Grove, CA

  • Kent Williams, Amalgam: Paintings and Drawings, 1992-2007, hardcover, text by Edward Lucie-Smith and Julia Morton, ASFA, Pacific Grove, CA

Awards

  • The Yellow Kid: Lucca, Italy
  • Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, &, quot, Outwin Boochever Portrait Painting and Sculpture Exhibition&, quot, , 2002-2007

Exhibitions

  • Merry Karnowsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, &, quot, Convergence&, quot, , 2011,
  • Evoke Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM, &, quot, Eklektikos&, quot, , 2010,
  • Merry Karnowsky Gallery, Berlin, Germany, &, quot, Kent Williams at Merry Karnowsky Gallery Berlin&, quot, , 2008,
  • Merry Karnowsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, &, quot, Swim in the Deep Water&, quot, , 2008,
  • Merry Karnowsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, &, quot, In Animate&, quot, , 2007,
  • Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, &, quot, Outwin Boochever Portrait Painting and Sculpture Exhibition&, quot, , 2006,
  • Merry Karnowsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, &, quot, Amalgam&, quot, , 2006,
  • Duke University Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NC, &, quot, Critics Choice: Julia Morton&, quot, , 2000,
  • Evoke Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM, &, quot, Ophthalm: New Drawings &, amp, Paintings&, quot, , 2013,
  • 101/Exhibit, Los Angeles, CA. &, quot, How Human of You&, quot, , 2014,
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