LG WILLIAMS received his M.F.A from the University of California, Davis and B.A. from the Kansas City Art Institute. He also holds an honorary Ph.D. from ISSA, Cedar Rapids, IA. Williams has taught art, art history and art appreciation courses at the University of California-Davis, University of Southern California, California College of the Arts, and the University of Hawaii, to name a few. Author of many books and publications on art, art criticism, and poetry, Williams has appeared in Modern Painters, Juxtapoz, Artweek, Art Papers, Village Voice, San Francisco Chronicle, Honolulu Bulletin, Sacramento Bee, LA Weekly, Maui Weekly, SF Weekly, and The Bay Guardian. Williams’s recent curatorial projects include Wally Hedrick’s, War Room, at the San Francisco International Art Fair.
His most recent book, Drawing Upon Art: A Workbook for Gardner's Art Through the Ages (Cengage Publishing), was published January 2009.
LG Williams is also an established visual artist with an extensive national and international exhibition schedule. His works have been shown at various venues, among them the Lance Fung Gallery, Steven Wirtz Gallery, Gallery Subversive, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, di Rosa Art Preserve, and Lucerne Kuntzpanaorama. His artworks are featured in many important museums and private collections. According to Kenneth Baker, an art critic for the San Francisco Chronicle:
“Williams wants to hold open a space in which painting might resume in earnest.”
Three catalogue raisonées are devoted to the artist: Point of No Return: LG Williams, 2003–2005; LARGE: LG Williams, 2002-2003; and LG Williams: An Appreciation, 1985-2000. His most recent work is the House Where The Bottom Fell Out, Iao Valley, Maui; 2008. Williams has won many awards, among them, Award of Excellence by The State of California, was included in the 2005 Western Biennial, and honored by induction into the Rat Bastard Protective Association in 2001. His design firm, lgofbeverlyhills, has recently appeared in Modern Painters, Juxtapoz, Nylon, LA Weekly and The Encyclopædia Britannica. |
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