LG Williams / The Estate of LG Williams Selected Artworks: 1985 - 2004

LG Williams / The Estate OF LG Williams Selected Artworks: 1985 - 2004

Volume 01 -- Version 13.01

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LG Williams / The Estate of LG Williams Selected Artworks: 1985 - 2004 features more than 200 paintings, works on paper, photographs, and sculptures. Published in full cooperation with the artist and the artist's estate, this handsome book speaks to both continuity and innovation in Williams’s work, underscoring the ongoing creative vitality of one of the greatest contemporary American artists of our time.


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LG Williams received his M.F.A. from the University of California, Davis nearly twenty years after the school’s most famous graduate Bruce Nauman. He has showed at various national and international venues, among them The Internet Pavilion of La Biennale Di Venezia 2011, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, di Rosa Art Preserve, Lucerne Kunstpanorama, Cologne Art Fair, Artissima, LISTE, Art-O-Rama, ARCO, Super Window Project, Lance Fung Gallery, Steven Wirtz Gallery, and Gallery Subversive. 


Williams’s artworks are featured in museums and private collections in Europe, US and Japan. 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.” His exhibition, In Abstentia, held at Super Window Project in Kyoto, was reviewed in Artforum magazine in May 2011. A major European exhibition, 

LG Williams / The Estate of LG Williams, Anthology: 1985-2012, was organized in 2012 by Baron Osuna (Super Window Project) for Gloria Maria Gallery in Milan; the catalogue essay was written by Dr. Thomas Frangenberg, University of Leicester.


An heir to West Coast and Beat Generation art, LG Williams is the youngest member of the Rat Bastard Protective Association, whose membership includes Bruce Connor, Wally Hedrick, Jay DeFeo, Joan Brown, Manuel Neri, Wallace Berman, Jess Collins and George Herms.


Williams has taught studio art, art history, art appreciation, and graphic design courses at the University of California-Davis, University of Southern California, California College of the Arts, Arizona State University and the University of Hawaii. In March 2009 Cengage Learning / Wadsworth published Williams's Drawing Upon Art: A Workbook for Gardner's Art Through the Ages — an innovative pedagogical tool designed to facilitate learning art history through drawing.


Detailed information can be found at www.lgwilliams.com or by contacting the artist’s representative.