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Bernard Williams
Biography
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Wall installation, wood cut-out pieces
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This work grows from my continuing investigation of American and World history. Related interests include archeology, cartography, and ethnology. In many of my works, signs and symbols are collected and arranged in order to speak about the complexities of history and human development and movement through the ages. Retrieving and reinterpreting details of history and culture are central to my impulses. Multiple stories and fragments are layered and lined onto my canvases or chosen surface. I attempt to speak about America as a place of conflict, sharing, fragmentation, and convergence. America is seen as a place constructed by multiple cultures including Anglos, Hispanics, Blacks, Asians, and others.
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sculpture, title: Cargo, mareials: wood
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painting, Lecture on America
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wood cut-outs, title: 100 Symbols
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painting, America was Mexican
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I attempt to appropriate some of the practices of museums. These institutions around the world hold and collect vast stores of objects, images, and information. Materials are displayed or held carefully out of sight. My recent works display fragments and personal discoveries that are then presented with familiar objects or symbols. They are highly graphic, congested diagrams that mimic historical collections. The works investigate symbolic and associative histories. The interpretations are impulsive and intuitive. They are attempts to manage the overwhelming complexities of constructing histories which evoke radically differing worldviews.
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painting
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