February 1 - March 22, 2025
From Barry Whistler Gallery:
“This exhibition is Whistler’s 3rd solo exhibition with Williams. This exhibition will include over 26 Acrylic and oil canvases and several charcoal and conte crayon works on paper.
Curator, critic, and painter Robert Storr says of Williams’ work, “he has found the source of a material lyricism that can only be accessible to those who inherit a fully evolved means of expression. Williams’ muted colors and tones are exquisitely calibrated in the ways that a fundamentalist first generation abstract artist would have found difficult to achieve and might even have thought suspect had it been possible to do so. Williams’ touch is correspondingly deft, with the suave movement of his brush over the surface setting off visual incidents wherever an edge slips under, glances off or stops just shy of another edge.”
Mark Williams, Haze #3, 2024, Charcoal and conte crayon on paper, 22 3/8 x 30 in | Photo by Allison V. Smith
Critic and painter Stephen Westfall describes Williams’ paintings in this way: “Their geometric clarity and modulated coloration are the refinement of a historical consciousness and structural thinking. Being visual, however, they are products of something other, or more, than categorical thinking. Their planes shift as a spectator moves around, shadows tone a color and lengthen or shorten. A subtle, almost musical, movement occurs in the mind.”
Mark Williams received his MFA from the University of North Texas in 1975. By September of that year he had moved to New York City to participate in the Independent Study Program of the Whitney Museum of American Art. The city has been his home since then.”
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