Mark Williams

1975 - Columbus, OH USA

My current work is based on cave interiors, especially the formations of flowstones, stalactites, and stalagmites. The earliest known drawings over 30,000 years old are found in caves. Humans have been drawn to these chambers for a very long time, and I am no exception. During the past seventeen years, I have visited more than 80 caves and photographed the settings. The artwork is inspired by these images. Nostalgia is often referenced in the use of decades old fabrics for the base of paintings. This reference to the past is then partially hidden by layers of screen printed and hand painted images. The layering suggests the passage of time and accumulated memories. Repeated imagery becomes a rhythmic pattern that suggests that one is looking at something that is part of a larger, unseen whole. My artwork alludes to the fact that we are all part of a larger realm measured in geologic time.

2002-2004 University of Connecticut, Storrs
M.F.A.
2001 Rhode Island School of Design
1999-2000 School of Visual Arts, New York
1998-1999 Art Students League, New York
1993-1997 Miami University, Oxford, OH
B.F.A. Painting and Printmaking
1996 Lacoste School of the Arts, Lacoste, France

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 “Karst”, Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY

2019 “Down There”, The Parachute Factory, Lexington, KY

2016 “From A Cold Dark Place”, The Blue Door, New Haven, CT

2015 “Mark Williams Paintings”, EBK [small works], Hartford, CT

2014 “Underground Explorations”, The Gallery at Three Rivers Community College, Norwich, CT

2012 “The War Is Over”, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT

2010 “Can’t We All Just Get Along?”, Middlesex Community College, Middletown, CT

2007 “Killer Angels”, Grand Projects, New Haven, CT

2006 “Propagating War”, Windham Arts Center, Willimantic, CT

2001 “Paintings and Works on Paper”, AS220, Providence, RI

1999 “War Photographs”, New Youth Gallery, Hicksville, OH
“Recent Work”, Live Paint Fine Art, New York

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Art Now America, Slocumb Galleries, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN

2020 “The Shands Collection: New Directions”, Quappi Projects, Louisville, KY
“Matt Coors, Tracy Featherstone, Mark Williams”, The Gallery at th...