Larry Williams studied at the University of Western Ontario and then at Concordia University in Montreal. Working on the glass he has developed a technique where an image is created and then transferred to canvas. The paint is manipulated in various ways scraped and scratched but the final surface is smooth. Flat like a photograph but visually textured offers the viewer a sense of the surface and of the process.
With roots in Newfoundland and in Saskatchewan and a father in the Airforce -moving from place to place was a fundamental part of his life. For the past twenty years, Williams has settled in a rural village of St.Adelme in the Gaspesie of Eastern Quebec. Before that, he spent almost a decade in the Inuit village of Inukjuak on the east coast of Hudson Bay. The landscape is the bedrock of much of his work.
Since the beginning, his work was about landscape and its elements. The notion of being at one with nature is something more profound than a simple sentiment. He creates spaces in which a certain kind of synchronicity can take place. The cyclical nature of biological processes and geological ones give rise to his investigations. These investigations mimic those processes in the form and structure of nature. Sometimes analytical sometimes more whimsical - the work melts representation into abstraction opening up new possibilities.
He has had solo and group shows in various galleries across Ontario and Quebec and New Brunswick. He was represented for a time by Keller and Greene Gallery in Los Angeles. He has been reviewed in Art FocusMagazine and the La Times and the ArtsBusiness Exchange.
He has received Quebec artist grants and is represented in various public and private collections in Canada, the United States, and overseas.
CURRICULUM VITAE
LARRY WILLIAMS
B.F.A. UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO
M.F.A. CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY MONTREAL
EXHIBITIONS
2010- ENCAN OTTAWA NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA
2009- EPHEMERIDES - EPOSITION GROUP GALERIE ART DE MATANE
2008- TIMERAISER -WAR MUSEUM OTTAWA
2007 “GREEN” CUBE GALLERY OTTAWA
GALLERY 129 OSSINGTON DECEMBER
La Vieille Usine de L’Anse-a-Beaufils Juin- Sept
2006 Pleins Feux- Galerie d’Art de Matane
La Gaspesie des Artistes Expo La Vieille Usine de
L’Anse-a -Beaufils,Quebec
Artists Odysseys
Varley Art Gallery,Markham,Ontario
Projet Vitrines en Ville Matane
2005 Groupe -Galerie D’art de Matane
2004 Solo show-Real Time Studio Gallery,
Distillery District,Toronto
Wilder and Davis Gallery Montreal
Galerie D’art de Matane
Gallery Connexion,Fredericton NB
2003 “FISSURE” Keller and Greene Art
Gallery Los Angeles,California Oct17-Nov 29
Group Show “MOMENTUM,” Keller and Greene
Los Angeles, California May 16- June 26
Galerie Yergeau Montreal Apr4-May26
2002 Cumberland Art Gallery
Ottawa, Ontario April 2-30
2001 Group Show “ACQUA,TERRA, CIELO”,
Stewart Hall Art Centre,Pointe Claire ,Quebec
Press
Goyette, Line, La Gaspesie des Artistes. “Larry Williams,
St.Adelme de Matane”, Montreal ,Fides 2006
Dault, Gary Michael ,“Ideas of the North” , essay
catalogue ,”Artists’ Odysseys. The Arctic,
Varley art Gallery Markham 2006
Ollman,Leah “One Hit....” Los Angeles Times May 30th
2003
Seleanu Andre, Contemporary Approaches to
Landscape” Art Focus issue 71 June 2001
Awards
Quebec B Grant 2003
Public Collections
Stewart Hall Art Centre