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1969-2021. Peter Beresford Williams (March 18, 1952 – August 19, 2021) was an American painter, educator, and social activist. His paintings have been described by writer and artist William Eckhardt Kohler as "in no particular order: hallucinogenic, acerbic, pained, beautiful, confessional, obsessive, critical, jarring, wild, weird, and ...
Sep 18, 2021 · Peter Williams, whose colorful paintings — sometimes humorous, sometimes disturbing, often both — reflected his own history, Black history and contemporary issues like police brutality and...
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Aug 23, 2021 · ARTnews. News. Peter Williams, Painter Who Explored Black America’s Past and Present, Has Died at 69. By Tessa Solomon. August 23, 2021 3:52pm. Peter Williams, We traveled to distant...
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Oct 7, 2021 · In his version, Peter completely inverts the Copley painting, transforming the boy, Brook Watson, into a Black male figure with a part of one leg ripped from his body, suggesting Peter’s own missing leg, which he lost as a young man in a terrible car accident.
Aug 22, 2021 · ARTIST AND EDUCATOR Peter Williams (1952-2021) has died. He was 69. A fantastic painter and storyteller, his use of bold and intense color was equally matched by his candid and thoughtful insights about his own experiences and the realities of the wider world around him, which he expressed in his work.
by Neil Genzlinger. NEW YORK, NY.-. Peter Williams, whose colorful paintings — sometimes humorous, sometimes disturbing, often both — reflected his own history, Black history and contemporary issues like police brutality and mass incarceration, died Aug. 19 in Wilmington, Delaware. He was 69.
Aug 25, 2021 · A solo exhibition of this more comprehensive body of work, Peter Williams: Incarceration at Cressman Center for Visual Arts, Hite Art Institute, University of Louisville, Kentucky opened on February 7, 2020, foreshadowing the murders of Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor, which took place in the following weeks.
