Laura Williams

Williams’s abstract spaces are an ode to an imperfect language. Through motion, she makes marks that translate thought - subconscious – a viscerally understood language.
Williams works from her hometown of Chattanooga, Tennessee. In 2009 she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Next, Williams received a full scholarship to complete her Master's in Printmaking in 2012 at SCAD-Atlanta.
Williams worked at SCAD‘s Southeastern Center for Printmaking. There, she worked on an ambitious print collection with Kiki Smith and Valerie Hammond. Initially working as an assistant printer, Williams was indispensable to the project and was promoted to the assistant project manager.
On the heels of this project, Williams founded, managed, and co-owned Straw Hat Press, which specialized in fine art publishing and contract printing. As Straw Hat flourished, Williams realized that despite her success in printmaking, she would always be devoted to her love of drawing. Subsequently, she left Atlanta and returned to her hometown to pursue her career as a gallery artist, where she is still drawing.

MFA | Printmaking| SCAD | Atlanta, GA | 2012
BFA | Fine Art | The School of the Museum of Fine Art at Tuft’s University | Boston, MA | 2009

2023
PxP Contemporary | Quartet | New York, NYViridian Artists Inc. | Thirty-Second International Juried Exhibition | New York, NY

2022
Red, Blue, and Yellow | Van Der Plas Gallery | New York, NY
Personal Geographies | curated by Alaiyo Bradshaw & Matt Rota | New York, NY
Ephemeral/Eternal | curated by Alicia Puig of PXP Contemporary | Virtual, Brooklyn, NY
Cold Open | Cold Air Fine Art Gallery | Virtual, New York, NY

2019
Visual Thinking | Ronald Barr Gallery at Indiana University Southeast | New Albany, IN

2016
Spectrum | bG Gallery | Santa Monica, CA
The New South Juried Works on Paper | Kai Lin Gallery | Atlanta, GA

2015
Living Mark | Verum Ultimum Gallery | Portland, OR
Lettered Art, | Teufel Hof Basel |Basel, Switzerland
Art of Painting | Washington Art Association, juror William Bailey | Washington Depot, CT

2014
34th Annual National Print Exhibition, | Artlink | Fort Wayne, IN
The Senses | Linus Gallery | Los Anglos, CA

2013
Pretty in Ink | Pinnacle Gallery | Savannah, GA
High Museum of Art Print Fair | High Museum of Art | Atlanta, GA

2012
Intersecting Dualities | CherryLion Studios | Atlanta, GA
Talent Loves Company | Barbara Archer Gallery | Atlanta, GA
The Price is Right | Swan Coach House | Atlanta, GA
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