David Williams, b. 1984, is a mixed media artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He holds a BFA in graphic design from Colorado State University (2008) and an MFA in printmaking from Louisiana State University (2012). For over a decade, David has been pushing the bounds of mixed media processes. Tireless efforts and experimentation have taken place with collaging canvas, printmaking material (monotypes, etchings, woodcuts, lithographs), found paper, nylon, polyester and silk. For Williams, collage acts as a metaphor for the fragmented world we live in, where even disparate pieces, when constructed in a certain way can have harmony.

Although Williams' output of work has ranged from ethereal non-objective abstractions to figuration depicting both utopian and dystopian dreamscapes; the artist's most recent body of work "The Saguaro Series", a collection of mixed media landscape paintings and sculptures, explore ecological change, our relationship with nature, as well as the unifying, spiritual connection it can provide.

Williams has exhibited internationally with recent shows at Dopeness Art Lab, (Taipei, TW) Nexxasia, (Taipei, TW) Swivel Gallery, (Brooklyn, NY) Regular Normal Gallery, (New York, NY) Padre Gallery, (New York, NY) Anna Zorina Gallery, (New York, NY) among others. He is the recipient of such awards as: The Rock Star Studio Grant from the Sugar Hill Studio Program (Brooklyn, NY. 2017-2020), a Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship for painting, (2013) as well as an Emily Mason and Wolf Kahn Fellowship for excellence in visual art (2016) both granted from the Vermont Studio Center Artist Residency program, (Johnson, VT).

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