Justin Williams “Figures & Vessels”
ART 3
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ART 3 gallery presents a solo exhibition Figures & Vessels featuring works by Australian-based painter and ceramist Justin Williams. Shown widely in Australia, this will be Williams’s debut solo exhibition in the United States, as well as, his first with the gallery.
Transcending the whispers of local folklore and urban legend, Justin Williams’s artworks are raw, subversive, and primal while simultaneously being idyllic, mystical, and sublime. His imagery includes expressionistically rendered figures and animals often engulfed with luscious and vibrantly jewel toned foliage. The artist grew up living and working in the Dandenong Ranges just east of east of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Known for its towering Mountain Ash trees and sheltered fern gullies, this mild and wet mountain range and rainforest covers the remains of an extinct volcano. This topography, that of unruly bramble and dew on leaves just after a thunderstorm features heavily in Williams’s paintings
Williams’s ceramic sculptures are an important part of his body of work and are often exhibited alongside his paintings. They break away from pictorial or decorative constraints while sharing an active hand. Inspired by the Japanese tradition of wabi-sabi tea-bowl making, (beauty in imperfection), in which hundreds of bowls are thrown to have a handful selected. There is a lack of preciousness and emersion in the process of making that creating in this way breeds. Williams’s process embraces both this lack of ego and revelry in happy accidents.
Justin Williams was born in 1985 and received a Bachelor of Communication and Design, Majoring in Printmaking and Illustration from Swinburn University in 2004. The artist lives and woks in Melbourne, VIC, Australia. He has held numerous solo exhibitions including Viridian, 2014, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne; Mountain I Miss You, 2013, Mild Manner, Brisbane; and A Touch of Norway, 2012, Lapis Lazuli Pop Up Factory Gallery, Melbourne. His selected group exhibitions include the Melbourne Art Fair in 2014; Project 14: Free Range, 2014, Anna Pappas Gallery; Trouble in Paradise, 2012, Paradise Hills Gallery, Melbourne; and Group Show, 2012, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne. He has been featured in Artist Profile, Australian Creative and New York Arts Magazine.
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Schedule
from June 22, 2016 to July 24, 2016
Opening Reception on 2016-06-24 from 18:00 to 21:00