Neil Williams (artist)

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Neil Williams
Born1934
Lyrical Abstraction
Awards1968 Guggenheim Fellowship

Neil Williams (1934 – March 28, 1988), was an American painter and educator.

shaped canvases in the early 1960s. His paintings of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s are associated with geometric abstraction, hard-edge painting, color field, and lyrical abstraction, although he did not readily subscribe to any category for his work. He taught fine arts at the School of Visual Arts
, from the late 1970s until the early 1980s.

Biography

Williams was born in 1934, in Bluff, Utah.[1] He was in the process of moving to Brazil when he died in New York City at the age of 53.

Williams graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1959; showed his work in 1959 at the City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco and moved to New York City that same year. He began exhibiting his paintings in New York in 1960. He was a regular patron of Max's Kansas City throughout the period of the mid-1960s and early 1970s when it belonged to his friend Mickey Ruskin.

His paintings were exhibited at important art galleries in New York including solo exhibitions at the

P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, Queens).[4]

References

  1. ^
    ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved 2024-04-02.
  2. ^ Factor, Don (1966-04-01). "Neil Williams". Artforum. Retrieved 2024-04-02.
  3. ISBN 978-0-520-20147-7 – via Google Books
    .
  4. ^ "Archived copy". Art International Radio (AIR). Archived from the original on 2009-02-17. Retrieved 2009-03-19.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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