Laura Cleary Williams

Williams’s abstract spaces are an ode to an imperfect language. Through motion, she makes marks that translate thought - subconscious – a viscerally understood language.

Williams works from her hometown of Chattanooga, Tennessee. In 2009 she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Next, Williams received a full scholarship to complete her Master‘s in Printmaking in 2012 at SCAD-Atlanta.
Williams worked at SCAD‘s Southeastern Center for Printmaking. There, she worked on an ambitious print collection with Kiki Smith and Valerie Hammond. Initially working as an assistant printer, Williams was in dispensable to the project and was promoted to the assistant project manager.
On the heels of this project, Williams founded, managed, and co-owned Straw Hat Press, which specialized in fine art publishing and contract printing. As Straw Hat flourished, Williams realized that despite her success in printmaking, she would always be devoted to her love of dra wing. Subsequently, she left Atlanta and returned to her hometown to pursue her career as a gallery artist where her career has soared.

In 2022 and 2023 Williams showed with PXP Contemporary, Viridian, Van Der Plas Gallery and Equity Gallery in NYC. She was the first exhibition and solo at the highly acclaimed Good Art Co in South Carolina. She was a artist in residence with Carrie Able Gallery and asked to return for a solo exhibition in the Spring of 2024. When she will also be an artist in residence at Chateau d’Orquevaux in France.

Submitted by Wavelength Space