Lorna Williams
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| Born | 1986 |
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| 💼 Occupation | |
| Known for | Sculpture |
| Movement | Sculpture, Abstract art |
| 🌐 Website | http://www.lornacwilliams.com |
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Life and education
Lorna Williams was born in 1986 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Williams graduated from NOCCA before studying at various art schools, including the Maryland Institute College of Art, where she received her BFA in 2018. She also studied at several other schools, including the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Tyler School of Art. Williams's work has been reviewed by several different publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Art in America, The New York Times, and FLATT, among others. She has been the recipient of numerous awards and recognitions, some of which include the Presidential Scholars Program Semifinalist, ARTS Recognition Finalist, National Foundation for the Advancement in the Arts Finalist, Art and Change Grantee of the Leeway Foundation, and Ellen Battell Stockel Fellowship Recipient.
2008-2010 Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, BFA
2009 Yale University School of Art: Summer Programs, Norfolk, CT
2006-2008 Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
2005-2006 School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) Boston, MA
2001-2004 NOCCA/Riverfront (New Orleans Center for Creative Arts), New Orleans, LA
Career and style
Lorna Williams is a sculptural artist who uses a diverse array of materials to create her work. Like a rural outsider artist, Williams mixes gnarled branches, roots, and tree trunks, plumbing hardware, patterned paper, beads, feathers, doll parts, bones, and many other natural and non-natural materials into pantheistic poetry. Williams uses color, texture, pattern, and found materials to arrange and compose masterful sculptures that she displays and sometimes sells at city markets. While Williams enjoys working with sculptures, she also works with several different mediums, including woodwork, painting, drawing, and manufacturing. Through a position with a pen manufacturing company, Williams learned to craft pens using a lathe, a machine that cuts and smooths stones into vibrantly patterned casings. Whatever medium she may be working with, there’s always more to Lorna Williams’ work than meets the eye.
Work
Major exhibitions
2019 Untitled, The Mistake Room, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Untitled, Antenna Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2019 Staple Goods Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2017 lo·cus, 5 Press Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2013 Exposure, Expo Chicago, Chicago, IL
2013 appositions: still / birth / shit, DODGE Gallery, New York, NY
2011 brown baby, DODGE Gallery, New York, NY
2009 redefining womb space, Nesto Gallery, Milton Academy, Milton, MA
2008 work and worship stem from the same root, Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA
2005 Lorna Williams: Music from a Personal Perspective, Fine Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
2005 Lorna Williams, House of Blues: Voodoo Gardens, New Orleans, LA
2004 Lorna Williams: Sounds of Preservation, the Fine Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
Group exhibitions
2014 we seemed to be unanimously elected, Cindy Rucker Gallery, New York, NY
2014 Afrofuturism, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
2013 Renderings: New Narratives and Reinterpretation, Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia, PA
2012 The Bearden Project, Studio Museum Harlem, NY
2012 Collage Logic, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
2012 Twisted Sisters, DODGE Gallery, New York, NY
2012 Makeup on Empty Space, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY
2011 MICA BFA Thesis Exhibition, Baltimore, MD
2010 S.O.S. Saving our Soul, Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, New York, NY
2010 DRAMATIS PERSONAE, DODGE Gallery, New York, NY
2009 New Art Collective 2009: Salt of the Earth, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
2006 Rise Up! Art, Sounds and Shrines, Arts Somerville, Nave Gallery, Somerville, MA
2006 Introductions 2006: George Rosa & Lorna Williams, Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA
2005 Sounds of the Grain, NOCCA/Riverfront Ken Kirschman Artspace, New Orleans, LA
Awards and nominations
2013 Art and Change Grant, Leeway Foundation
2010 Santa Farinella Sngiamo General Fine Arts Scholarship
2009 Ellen Battell Stockel Fellowship Recipient, Yale University, School of Art, Norfolk Program
2009 Helen C. Stevens Scholarship for Rising Senior General Fine Arts Majors
2004 Presidential Scholars Program, Semifinalist
2004 National Foundation for the Advancement in the Arts (NFFA)
2004 Arts Recognition and Talent Search (ARTS) Finalist in the Visual Arts Category, selected to participate in the 2004 ARTS week held in Miami, FL
2004 National Foundation for the Advancement in the Arts (NFFA), Level 1 Prize Winner in the Visual Arts Category
2004 Daniel Price Memorial Scholarship for Aspiring Young Artist Recipient
2004 Helen Mervis Scholarship Award Recipient
Collections
21C Museum
Pizzuti Collection
Wellington Management
References
1. http://www.lornacwilliams.com/page-cv
2. https://joanmitchellcenter.today/lorna-williams
4. https://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-features/interviews/lorna-williams-dodge-brown-babies/
5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iXgoDrZG8k
External links
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