todd williamson - Chevalier Clark Fine Arts

TODD WILLIAMSON
Education:
1988 Belmont University (BA)- Nashville TN
1996 Cal State LA (Graduate Studies)- Los Angeles CA
UCLA (other), LA CA - Los Angeles CA
Positions:
2013-present
2010-present
2010-present
2013-present
Foundation Aids Monument, Board of Directors
Arts Commissioner -Arts & Cultural Affairs Commission
Performing Arts Sub-committee
Laurel House Sub committee
West Hollywood CA
West Hollywood CA
West Hollywood CA
West Hollywood CA
Awards:
2015 Bluduemila Assc, Sport & Arte
2010 POLLOCK KRASNER FOUNDATION
2010 Artistic Merit Award
2010 Abstract Showcase Award Winner
2010 Abstract Showcase Award Winner
2007 Curators Choice Award
Best Foreign Artist, Silver Plaque
Award Grant
American Consulate/Art 1307
Abstract Award 3rd round
Abstract Award 4th round
"Spectrum", Micro Museum
Naples Italy
New York NY
Naples Italy
Artslant International
Artslant International
New York NY
Residencies:
2012 Art 1307“Nuove Opere Napoltane”
2012 Fellini Gallery Berlin Residency
2007 Scuola Internazionale di grafica
2006 Louise Bourgeois Artist Salon
2006 AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME
2005 Skopelos Foundation
Residency
Residency
Visiting Artist
Invited Artist
Visiting Artist
Visiting Artist
Naples Italy
Berlin Germany
Venice Italy
New York NY
Rome Italy
Skopelos Greece
Select Solo Exhibitions:
2016 Nicole Longnecker Gallery
2015 Villa di Donato, Art 1307
2015 Premium Modern Art
2015 Rymer Gallery
2015 Art 1307
2015 Fellini Gallery
2014 Kevin Barry Fine Art
2014 Nicole Longnecker Gallery
2013 George Billis Gallery
2013 Wade Wilson Art
2012 P.A.N. Museum
2011 George Billis Gallery
2011 Installation W. Hollywood
2011 Barbara Davis Gallery
2010 Ippodo Gotenyama Gallery
2009 George Billis Gallery
2009 Belmont University
2009 Ippodo Gallery
2008 Asst.cult. Arte Giapponese
2008 LA Contemporary
2008 Irvine Fine Arts Center
2008 Assoc. Cultura ART 1307
2007 Klapper Gallery
2006 Gallery Gora
2006 O'Melveny Gallery
2004 O'Melveny Gallery
2002 Les Migreteurs
“Untitled for now”
Houston TX
Naples Italy
“Sounds of Light”
Stuttgart, Germany
“No Rhyme or Reason”
Nashville TN
“10 Year Retrospective”
Naples Italy
Berlin Germany
“Laddie John Dill & Todd Williamson
Santa Monica CA
“Inside the Lines”
Houston TX
“UnPolarized Light”
Los Angeles CA
“Illusion of the Precise” w/Robert Ryman Houston TX
“Todd Williamson a PAN!”
Naples, Italy
“Thoughts from a Mind Like Mine”
Los Angeles CA
“A Convergence of Souls”
West Hollywood CA
“2 Solo Exhibitions”
Houston TX
Tokyo Japan
"Todd Williamson"
New York NY
"Blurring the Lines"
Nashville TN
Tokyo Japan
"Trauma di Luce"
Milan Italy
"Beyond the Line"
Los Angeles, CA
"Todd Williamson"
Irvine, CA
"Orizzonti"
Naples Italy
Los Angeles CA
Montreal Canada
"Db MINOR"
Los Angeles CA
"NEW WORKS"
Los Angeles CA
Paris France
“Polifonia di un Paesaggio”
2.
Select Group Exhibitions:
2015 Curators Voice Art Projects
2015 Ivy Brown Gallery
2015 Art Hub
2014 Nashville Int. Airport
2013 Art Cube
2013 Fuxin Gallery
2013 See. Me Gallery
2013 Pi II Gallery
2013 Wade Wilson Art
2012 Guirtartown Sunset Strip
2012 Rottet Studios
2012 Fellini Gallery
2012 Wade Wilson Art
2012 S Cube Gallery
2011 Villa Bruno
2011 Barbara Davis Gallery
2011 Visual Arts Center NJ
“Premium” cur. Dr. Milagros Bello
“Restless Edge”
"Italian Soul" *guest artist
“The Destination”-public art installation
“Enchanted Afterlife”
“Transitives”
“The Story of the Creative” dig. Exh.
“Sweet Darkness” w/cellist Helen Money
“Illusion of the Precise”w/Robert Ryman
British Invasion
“the art swagger” *cur Brenda Harrrop
“Angelenos”
“Gallery Artists”
“On the Edge, Statements in B&W”
“Sulle trace di Luca Giordano”
“Plentitude”
“25th Silver Anniversary Exhibition”
*curated by Joan Young
2010 Barbara Davis Gallery
“Elevated” (w/Ed Ruscha, Chuck Close)
2010 Villa di Donato
“The White Age”
2009 Fellini Gallery
"Visionaire" w Ed Moses
2009 MOCA Museum
"Fresh" Auction
2009 Art 1307
"Proposte per una Collezione"
2008 MAUI Museum
"Biennale delle Arti dell'Unita' d'Italia"
2008 Zimmer Children’s Museum "The Art of Vision"
2007 Micro Museum
"Spectrum" *curators choice award
2006 Klapper Gallery
"Leaving The Known"
2006 High Energy Constructs
"Chain Letter" curated by Doug Harvey
2007 Songzhuang Art Festival
"American Cont. Art Exhibition"
2006 Andrew Shire Gallery
2003 O’Melveny Gallery
"LAUNCH PAD"
ART FAIR & FESTIVALS
*available upon request
Collections:
*available upon request
Miami FL
NYC, NY
Abu Dhabi UAE
Nashville TN
Laguna CA
Miami FL
Long Island City NY
Los Angeles CA
Houston TX
West Hollywood CA
Los Angeles CA
Berlin Germany
Santa Fe NM
Laguna CA
San Giorgio Italy
Houston TX
Summit, New Jersey
Los Angeles CA
Milan/Naples Italy
Shanghai China
Los Angeles CA
Naples Italy
Caserta Italy
Los Angeles CA
New York NY
Los Angeles CA
Los Angeles CA
Beijing China
Los Angeles CA
Los Angeles CA
Bibliography:
La Repubblica Newspaper "Todd Williamson Between Music and Painting"
by Marco Franco
Nov 28, 2015
"The great idea in the synthesis of the arts, painting that inhabits the space, and the music that develops over time, came
first in the twentieth century from the collaboration between Arnold Schönberg and Wassily Kandinsky in 1911 up to the
experiments of "Fluxsus" in 60's. The uniqueness and originality of the cooperation between the pictorial works of
Williamson and musical compositions of Greg Walter, all part of the exhibition, is to put on canvas the sounds of the
melody , while the music translates the colors, lines, and tonalities in the art."
Napoli Village: Art1307 presenta: ToddWilliamson “Polifonia di un Paesaggio” Nov 25 2015
(televised video)
QD Napoli: Todd Williamson @ the Museo Pio Monte della Misericordia
"Williamson's works are permeated by a powerful dynamism, which is expressed through the choice of colors. With clever
use of the technique oil on canvas, Williamson lights the scenes, which lead beyond the vanishing points of the
canvas. This, according to many, is perfectly suited to dialogue with the paintings of the '600 (the number of artworks in
the Pio Monte's permanent collection) and, therefore, with the artistic choices of Caravaggio. For this reason, Williamson's
"Mercy" will be placed before the work of the immortal pioneer of Lombardy, in order to encourage the visitor to a dialog
between the two paintings, Caravaggio's and Williamson's."
"Todd Williamson at the Museo Pio Monte della Miseracordia" MimAb Art & Culture Naples Italy
Nov 2015
"Caravaggio and #ToddWilliamson , past and present, face to face in the museo Pio Monte della Misericordia in Naples.
Williamson's work was inspired by the "Seven Acts of Mercy" by Caravaggio and will part of the permanent collection of
the Pio Monte dedicated to new artistic trends.
As the editors like to point out, Todd Williamson works with "classic" materials - oil on canvas - creating abstract works full
of #light and #movement that could well dialogue with the works of the '600 Neapolitan artists in the Pio Monte's
collection, and in particular with the work of all Caravaggio which Williamson is a great scholar and lover."
"Mercy" by California painter Todd Williamson @ Pio Monte della Misericordia Diario Partenopeo
Nov 2015
Museo Pio Monte della Misericordia in collaboration with ART1307 presents, "Mercy" by California painter #Todd
Williamson . The painting was inspired by Caravaggio's "Seven Works of Mercy" and will become part of the permanent
contemporary art collection of the Pio Monte. Williamson creates abstract works full of light and movement that interact
seamlessly with the works of the '600 Neapolitan artists and in particular with the Caravaggio, of which Williamson is a
great scholar and lover. "Mercy" will be displayed at the Pio Monte, opposite to the work of the master Caravaggio."
Art1307 presenta: Todd Williamson “Polifonia di un Paesaggio” Napoli November 25,
2015 Napoli Village
"A completely new concept in the history of painting and in which we can say that the musician has "painted" the canvas
and the painter has "played" the melody, creating a unique, musical and pictorial, four hands."
Art-to-Art Palette Journal "Art Disciplines Join As One"
By Tony Clark Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Nov 2015
''Like a magician, Todd Williamson has harnessed light and sound onto his new body of works. As Kandinsky interrupted
Jazz and Caravaggio mastered light in their paintings, artist Williamson has brought both worlds together.''
The Pickwick: "Polyphony of a Landscape" How Close can Painting and Music
Touch?
by Roberta Andolfo
Nov 2015
"The group of experiments of the interaction between visual art and music, can be considered commendable, have
reflected on the subject by examining different points of view, exploring from time to time the reactions of two
different "sense" stimuli so different and yet in some ways similar. In this "way" they are woven together and repeated
from one medium to another.
Miro was imprinted by his friends music and some of his sketches became the elusive touch segmented sounds that
followed, while Kandinsky was able to modulate the rhythm to capture the plans and the elements present in space,
caught only by the perception of the human eye, as well as any orchestra conductor directing the development of the
sound contributions of each musician.
In our day, the example of two American academics, the American painter Todd Williamson and composer and longtime
friend, Greg Walter, is that of a partnership designed on the cutting of ' interference ."
Racna Magazine "Todd Williamson, Polyphony of a Landscape" in Villa di Donato,
Painting and Listening".
Nov 2015
The concept of music is both complex and simple: if one side is completely indescribable, the other can be made with a
thought, a word, and sometimes with a trace of color on a canvas. If the Lebanese poet Khalil Gibran wrote that music
teaches us to see and hear with the ear with the heart, the American artist Todd Williamson decided to express what
he sees and what he feels through his medium, painting. Williamson and Walter have therefore initiated a common
path, in search of the visible spectrum of the sound waves of music and painting . From their collaboration and their
work triggered a series of large paintings and a symphony, which took the name of Polyphony of a Landscape
http://www.rivistasegno.eu/todd-williamson-mercy-a-pio-monte-di-napoli/
Nov 2015
http://www.diariopartenopeo.it/mercy-del-pittore-californiano-todd-williamson-al-pio-montedella-misericordia/
Nov 2015
Nashville Arts Magazine
“Painting for a Song”
“It’s impossible not to feel a visceral shock when turning from Todd Williamson’s highly abstract depictions of ethereal
emotions and sounds arising out of rigid, mathematical, underlying order” by Logan Halsey
March 2015
Huffington Post
“Pax de Deux” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nicholas-marlin/pas-dedeux_1_b_6129182.html
‘’The exhibition of Laddie John Dill and Todd Williamson, at Kevin Barry Fine Art in Santa
Monica, can be defined as a "pas de deux" of the two Californian artists; a musical path or a dance on the gallery walls that
the two embark on alternating and juxtaposing with great skill. The styles and artistic personalities of the two masters,
very different from each other, come together in a "visual sound" that is not a contradiction in terms, but rather a visual
objectification of two artistic paths that play and focus on issues dear to both, such as light, motion and "pictorial field"
ordered by apparent geometric lines.”
By Cynthia Penna cur Art 1307
Nov 10,2014
West Hollywood Magazine
“The Perfect Line” pg. 94-95 Premiere Issue
Fall 2014
http://issuu.com/wh-mag/docs/wh-mag-issuu2
Art to Art Palette
"The Light from Within"
“Captured by Todd are the reflections of the light; those that draw a viewer’s attention to the luminosity rather than any
specific object or form. I find Williamson’s artworks in the league of the Russian Avant Garde which brought us Rayonism;
thusly, they gave the world a new way to see everyday life”. By Chevalier Tony Clark
May 2013
FLASH ART
“Sulle trace di Luca Giordano”
GuitarPlayer
“Guitartown on the Sunset Strip” pg 27
Grimey Gatsby
The Grimey Gatsby "Todd Williamson"
Il Denaro
“Williamson:Napoli e la Luce”
All Italian Reviews:
Todd Williamson
Il Denaro Newspaper
Full immersion con L’artista Americano
Il Mattino
L’ommaggio di Todd Williamson
Il Mattino
“A Napoli ho sperimentato il caos mescolato con la luce”
Exibart
Todd Williamson in conferenza al PAN Museum
ArttoArtPaletteJournal.com
“An Artist of Many Dimensions”
PalettePaperBoy. Live Journal.com “Revelations of Todd Williamson”
Huffington Post – Haiku Review
“Todd Williamson seems in Transition”
Fabrik Magazine
“The Amalgamation of Art & Design”
HustlerofCulture.com
“Thoughts from a Mind like Mine”
EquipeCo (Italy)
“The White Age”
Il Denaro Newspaper
“Pittori nel casino da caccia”
Kritiki
“Todd Williamson”
Not Apartheid – CAM Museum Magazine
“The Anima Mundi”
Art and Living Magazine
Artists to Watch in 2009
DavidMixner.com
Todd Williamson Sweeps into Nashville
NowPlayingNashville.com
Blurring the LInes at Leu Art Gallery
Exibart.com
Todd Williamson - Trame di Luce
Art and Living
"Todd Williamson at the Japanese Cultural Center Milan Italy"
2011
Holiday 2012
November 2012
April 21, 2012
Bakeca Milano
Trame di luce di Todd Williamson
Il Denaro
The Big Brother" censurato in Cina
L' Avanti
Gli orizzonti astratti di Williamson
Il Mattino
La Luce dell' Arte
Il Denaro
Todd, l'uomo di Nashville che ha scelto la luce di Napoli
Orizzonti
Essay by Cynthia Penna
Art Linking
3rd Songzhuang Art Festival
The Art of Vision
Zimmer Childrens Museum
Todd Williamson
"New Works" Monograph Essay by Peter Frank
Space Magazine
"Full of Life" pg 82
Fine Interiors
"The Art of It"
LA Weekly
"Art Pick of the Week"
Robb Report
"A Perfect 10"
"Launch Pad
50 Emerging Artist in America"
Los Angeles Magazine
"The Art Show"
Elle Decoration (Europe)
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