Bill Byers

My latest paintings, entitled “Profiles in Ice” are expressions of appreciation and hope as we face climate change and the vanishing cryosphere.
Celebrating the beauty and transience of the frozen landscape; the massive glaciers and monumental icebergs.

These paintings consist of three features:

1. A background depicting a map of a frozen landscape.
2. An overlay of a celestial constellation map, which provides a reminder of the global, planetary effect of this crisis, as well as a time stamp superimposed on the threatened landscape.
3. And lastly, an iconic figure of a fading iceberg.

I use multiple layers of thin paint to build up the paintings.
I remember how impressed I was when I first heard how some painters used layers and layers of translucent paint so the light would pass through the colors and bounce back to the viewer. 

The paintings are acrylic on wood panels.
They come complete with hanging wire and are ready to hang.

BFA - State University College at Buffalo

SELECTED SOLO SHOWS:
“The Sky Was Blue and Tall as Hell”,  Shores Space,  Amsterdam, Holland 2000
Sculpture and Drawings,  Mercer Gallery, Rochester, NY 1998
“Hot Stuff, Cool Head”,  Rotunda Gallery, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 1997

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS:
Group Show, Shrine Gallery, New York City, NY 2021
"Mapping It Out”, The Work Space, New York City, NY 2003
“Waves”, The Work Space, New York City, NY 2002
“The Brewster Project”, Brewster, NY 2001
“Refrigerate After Opening (the cool show)”, Cynthia Broan Gallery,  New York City, NY 2001
“Nature Revisited”, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY 2001
“The Notion of Motion”, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY 2000
“Here and Elsewhere: Ruminations of Space”, Farrell/Pollock Fine Art,  New York City, NY 2000
“The More Things Change”, SculptureCenter, New York City, NY 1999
“Cremolata Flotage”, Staten Island Ferry, New York City, NY 1999
Tobey Fine Arts, New York City, NY 1999
“8 Contemporary Artists”, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA 1998
“Better Color Through Chemistry”, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY 1997
Sculpture Show, James Graham & Sons, New York City, NY 1997
“Art of the Northeast USA”, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan,  CT 1996
“The Yankee...