Antoine Williams' mixed-media work investigates his cultural identity by exploring power, fear and the perception of signs within society. Heavily influenced by science fiction, and his rural, working-class upbringing in Red Springs, North Carolina, Antoine has created his own mythology about the complexities of contemporary Black life. An artist-educator, Antoine received his BFA from the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, and his MFA from UNC Chapel Hill. He helped start the God City Art Collective in Charlotte, where he participated in a number of socially engaged, community-based art projects, such as pop-up art shows, afterschool art programs, underground rap shows, and film festivals. He has exhibited in a number of places, including at the Mint Museum of Art, Michigan State University, Columbia Museum of Art, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, 21c Museum, as well as many other venues. He is also a recipient of the 2017 Joan Mitchell Award of Painters and Sculptors. Williams is an Assistant Professor of Drawing in the Expanded Field at University of Florida.
Additional Artworks
From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College
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Roger Manley
National Guard Trainer, 1984
Gelatin silver print
9.75 x 9.75 in (24.77 x 24.77 cm)
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Jim McCormick
Collaboration: Press, 1979
Lithograph on paper
16.0625 x 11.3125 in (40.8 x 28.73 cm)
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Lisa Mackie
Pillow Fight, 1976
Lithograph on paper
15 x 19 in (38.1 x 48.26 cm)
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Richard Lindner
Fun City: Poet, 1971
Lithograph on paper
22.625 x 18.625 in (57.47 x 47.31 cm)
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Gordon House
Arc Within a Square VI, 1971
Etching on paper
24.75 x 17.875 in (62.87 x 45.4 cm)
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Todd Webb
Ibiza, 1951
Gelatin silver print
11 x 7 in (27.94 x 17.78 cm)
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John Boydell
Dramatic Works of Shakespeare - King Lear, 1803
Engraving on paper
17.25 x 23.5 in (43.82 x 59.69 cm)
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James Harold Jennings
E3 Aeon, No date
Painted wood sculpture
20.75 x 5.75 x 17.5 in (52.71 x 14.61 x 44.45 cm)
About the artist
Antoine Williams
American
b. 1980