"More Please" Acrylic on Canvas 40" x 60", 2000	"Picked by #1, Inspected by #2" Acrylic on Canvas 60" x 70" 2000	"Fun & Games" Acrylic on Canvas 70" x 58", 2000	"Eye on the Prize Acrylic on canvas 60" x 70", 2000	"One in a Million" Acrylic on Canvas 58" x 70", 2000

"Wink Series" 48" x 48" Acrylic on Canvas 1999	"Wink Series" 48" x 48" Acrylic on Canvas 1999	"Wink/Leathery Black" 48" x 48" Acrylic on Canvas 1999 Collection of Jim & Barbie Beeler	"Wink Series" 48" x 48" Acrylic on Canvas 1999

"Heroes: "John Lennon", 48" x60", acrylic on canvas, 1998	"Heroes: "Evel Knievel", 48 " x 60", acrylic on canvas, 1998	"Heroes: "Neil Armstrong", 48" x 60", acrylic on canvas, 1998	"Memoirs of the Human Torch-III", 48" x48", acrylic on canvas, 1998	"Memoirs of the Human Torch-I", 48" x48", acrylic on canvas, 1998

David Williams' work combines strong textures, a pop sensibility, retro styling, text and a precise painterly style to create canvases of singularly strong impact. He was recently recognized by acceptance into Open Studios latest NEW AMERICAN PAINTINGS Southern issue.

See POWER PACKED: A collaborative painting project with Ron Pieniak

Represented by: Merrick Gallery, St. Petersburg

contact artist: 727-865-9532

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STATEMENT AND BIO:

Confront a crazy world with its own images

One of the most outstanding and - to some critics - infuriating features of
art in the post-modern era is the appropriation of already existing images. To
many it seems like cheating, somehow.

Some artists reject the notion of creating new images, why should we when we
already live in a world of cluttered images. Images bombard us from every
direction, from magazines, television, advertising and cyberspace. I choose to
take already existing images and turn then back on themselves, using them for
purposes for which they were not intended.

When you see a image reused by an artist this way, you may never feel quite
the same about it later. Andy Warhol, Jean-Michael Basquiat and David Salle are
painters whose names come to mind when I think of reusing images, combining them
and juxtaposing them in order to tell a different story than they originally
told.

I use remembered images from rainy day hours as a child in the late 60's
sketching from old magazines at my granfathers summer farm in eastern Kentucky -
Popular Mechanics, Woman's Day - whatever had been kept and stored away. The
paintings and monoprints I produce tell stories of men and women and how they
view themselves and each other. They are images of sex and power, or the lack of
sex and power, manipulation and frustration. I use multipule images as well as
multipule painting styles in each work, layering image on top of image. Bringing
fourth disturbing messages from within our culture - and our hearts.

Born: 8.17.60. Ashland, Kentucky
Education: 1983 BFA in painting/illustration, Eastern Kentucky University,
Richmond, Kentucky.

Recent exhibits:

SUMMER 1996, Featuring Florida '96, Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Fla.
SUMMER 1996, Printworks '96, Barrett House Gallery, Poughkeepsie, New York
FALL 1996, New paintings and monoprints (one man show), Sarasota Visual Arts
Center, Sarasota, Fla.

SPRING 1997, Dysfunctional Bar-B-Q (one man show), Gallery at 145, St.
Petersburg, Fla.
SUMMER 1997, Members Juried Show, Artists Unlimited Inc.,Tampa, Fla.
SUMMER 1997, PAVA Members Juried Show, Painted Fish Gallery, Dunedin, Fla.
FALL 1997, New paintings and monoprints (one man show), Art & Java Gallery, Ybor
City, Fla.

WINTER 1998, "Florida Emerging Artists", Lakeland Center for Creative Arts,
Lakeland, Fla.
SUMMER 1998, Featuring Floida '98, Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Fla.
FALL 1998, $$$ group show, Gallery @ 145, St. Petersburg, Fla.
FALL 1998, Memoirs of the Human Torch, one man show, Fusion Gallery, St. Pete,
Fla.

Other exhibits:
SPRING 1995, National Juried Show, Provincetown Art Association and Museum,
Provincetown, Mass.
SUMMER 1995, Printworks '95, Barrett House Gallery, Poughkeepsie, New York
SPRING 1996, Southeastern Triennial, Mobile Museum Art, Mobile, Al.
SPRING 1996, National Juried Show, Provincetown Art Association and Museum,
Provincetown, Mass.