Artist Talks and Workshop with the Charleston County Public Library: Charles Williams

This event is taking place at the Charleston County Public Library Main Branch, 68 Calhoun Street, Charleston, SC 29401 Responding to artworks on view at the Gibbes Museum of Art in the exhibition Black Refractions: Highlights from the Studio Museum in Harlem (May 24-August 18, 2019), local artists will share their creative processes. Participants will have the opportunity to create their own artworks inspired by the exhibition in a hands-on workshop following that artist talk. Charles Williams: Color Someone Beautiful
Beauford Delaney’s “radiant paintings are marked by saturated color and transcendent light that evoke atmosphere and energy. . . . Portrait of a Young Musician is striking for its chromatic intensity and the tender depiction of its subject. . . . As both an instrument of light and color, Delaney’s yellow endows the portrait with a distinctive environment and effect” (Alex Fialho, Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem, p. 82). Create a portrait of an artist in your community using color to convey their personality and the feeling tone of their work. Free This program is in collaboration with the Charleston County Public Library and is sponsored by Art Bridges. About Charles Williams
Williams has attended summer artist residencies at Otis College of Art and Design (Los Angeles, CA), SOMA (Mexico City, Mexico), the Gibbes Museum (Charleston, SC), and the McColl Center for Art + Innovation (Charlotte, NC). Solo exhibitions include ”February Sun” at the Morris Museum (Augusta, GA), “SUN + LIGHT” at Residency Art gallery (Inglewood, LA), “Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See” (Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC), and “Swim” at Morton Fine Art (Washington, DC). His work was also recently exhibited at Aqua and Scope Art Fair / Art Basel (Miami, FL). Group exhibitions include the Weatherspoon Museum (Greensboro, NC), the Mint Museum (Charlotte, NC), East Tennessee State University (Johnson City, TN), Tiger Strike Asteroidproject space(Philadelphia, PA) and other national institutions. Works have been reviewed in local and national publications and media, which include the Washington Post, NPR, and South Carolina’s ETV network (PBS affiliate). Permanent collections include the North Carolina Museum of Art (NC), the Gibbes Museum (SC), Knoxville Museum of Art (TN), and the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art (NJ). Williams also received the Riley Institute Diversity Leadership Award from the State of South Carolina for the development of enriching art programs within local communities. Charles Williams is a contemporary visual artist from Georgetown, SC, and holds a BFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) in Savannah, GA and an MFA at the University of North Carolina (UNCG) in Greensboro, NC. Creating compelling imageryin oils, video / film, and sound installations, Williams’s work investigates current, historical cultural events related to racism, and to suggestive stereotypes formedwithin individuals. His works define self–representation of human emotive responses that lie within cultural identity, and reveal tension to expose the complexities within our sociopolitical environments. Through his visions, we are encouraged to engage in self-examination, to question false boundaries that separate us, and view the inner connectedness of our common existence.