Artist: Brad Williams | Location: Myrtle Beach, SC
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Artist: Brad Williams | Location: Myrtle Beach, SC
Myrtle Beach, SC
Brad Williams produces some of the most deeply affecting surrealism seen today in contemporary art. His lush oil paintings rip deep meaning from thick paint and bold brushstroke, where representational images are inserted into abstract distorted and agitated environments. The effect is a tactile surface–his immersion in painterly improvisation–set into an uneasy alliance with the more figurative.
Williams acknowledges a variety of influences, including Charles Burchfield, Max Ernst, and Anselm Kiefer. Though these influences were important to the developing foundations of his art, his unique style comes from his personal observations of humanity in opposition with the physical finiteness of our world, revealed on his canvas as painterly pools of earth and flesh.
Williams earned a BFA from the University of Texas Tech in 1978, and later earned an MFA in painting from Florida State in 2008. His paintings have been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions internationally.