RANDY WILLIAMS

Randy Williams is an artist and the Professor/Chair of Studio and Art Education at Manhattanville College in Purchase NY. He is an instructor and consultant to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Williams has won numerous prizes and awards, including, Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation of the Arts and recognition from New York State Council on the Arts. His work has been the subject of more than thirty solo exhibitions, scores of special projects, and group exhibitions. His work was included in the “Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power.” at the Brooklyn Museum ,2019.

My art is an extension of my self-invention
I use my art as a form of personal research
I use my art as a form of personal protest
I use my art as a platform to step on to see over segregated walls
I use my art as a blindfold to buffer pain
I use my art as a weapon to combat social injustices
I use my art as a tool too justify the truth
I use my art as a tool justify lies
I use my art to explore my feelings
I use my art to expose my feelings
I use my art to conceal my feelings
I make my art because it is my acquisition of wealth
I use my art as a substitute for religion
I use my art to conceal my fear of living
I use my art to veil my fear of dying
I make my art because when I see the art that I make
I am more likely to forgive the brutal concealment of America’s History

Randy Williams

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