Peter Williams
Untitled, 2015.
Statement:
“I slowly have come to realize that some of the police in this country think they have permission to kill minorities. They already incarcerate millions and they are, simply put, exterminating the rest. It’s shocking that this continues even though there is documentation and videos of these acts of violence. So I feel free to expose this ignorance and make art that bears witness to these events.”
Administration, 2015.
Natural Selection, 2015.
Untitled, 2013.
About:
Williams – in his sixties and black – may have seemingly left his usual attention to facture at the studio door with these works, but to see these paintings less as Painting and more as Propaganda would be an egregious case of boat-missing. Indeed, there is a sense of passion and immediacy to them that at first look dominates. It is this immediacy, though, that is their strength, and it doesn’t come at the expense of the painter’s interest in painterly painting.(quotes from an article on ArtSlant by Bradley Rubenstein, March 2015)
All: courtesy the artist.