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October Issue
2008
Red Clover Gallery in Landrum, SC,
Features Works by James Williams
Red
Clover Gallery in Landrum, SC, is presenting the exhibition, Public
Relations?, featuring the art of James Williams, on view through
Oct. 9, 2008.
A PhD in Chemistry from Princeton University would not seem to lead one into art. However, Williams showed an early interest in both. "Like painting, chemistry finds meanings in colors and color changes, and allows one to see beneath the surface to expose an interior reality or constitution," Williams states.
While working in labs in the US and England, he realized his true vocation lay in creating art. He began seriously producing and exhibiting his work while still a chemist. Williams, a self-taught artist, communicates his experience of people and the world through works most of which are done in pastels, some also in pen and ink, watercolor and other media. He has long been devoted to the artistic depiction of human behavior. His use of color and his evocation of the shades of facial expression in his pastels challenge the foundations of "public relations".
"When I start a painting, I generally begin with the impression of a person emotion or event, whether internal or external remembered or actually present. In the process of evoking the nascent image and putting it down on paper, a metamorphosis from photographic reality to shapes dictated by my intuition occurs," he says.
Williams has exhibited his work in numerous solo and group shows throughout the US. He will be bringing 16 pieces to the Red Clover. The gallery is honored to have such a vibrant and unconventional artist exhibiting.
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Gallery listings, call the gallery at 864/457-3111 or visit (www.redclovergallery.com).
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