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Sep 18, 2021 · By Neil Genzlinger. Published Sept. 18, 2021 Updated Sept. 21, 2021. Peter Williams, whose colorful paintings — sometimes humorous, sometimes disturbing, often both — reflected his own history,...
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. His wife, Elishka Vitanovska Mayer, said the cause was a heart attack.
Oct 1, 2020 · LOS ANGELES — Peter Williams has long engaged issues of American racism and the Black experience, and his new exhibition Black Universe at Luis De Jesus Los Angeles is no different: his...
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Aug 21, 2021 · Peter Williams, a pioneering painter who transcended genres and created vibrant, fervent boldly-colored figurative and abstract paintings that burst with emotion and socio-political passion,...
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Aug 22, 2021 · His vast body of work has addressed racial oppression and violence, migration and displacement, mass incarceration and police brutality, the environment, and otherworldly realms inspired by Afro-futurism. He has also dedicated series to “Black Women of the Black Power Revolution” and Colin Kaepernick.
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Aug 25, 2021 · Williams chronicled current and historical events, interspersing pictorial narratives with personal anecdotes and fictional characters in order to create colorful paintings about the diverse experiences of Black Americans.
Aug 23, 2021 · Peter Williams, a genre-bending painter who explored the past and present of Black America through surreal narratives, has died at 69. Luis De Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles, which represents...
