Pasó su niñez en la biblioteca de su abuelo, Héctor. A los diecisiete años fundó la revista Barandal. En 1998 publicó su primer libro, también titulado Barandal, y fundó Cuadernos del Valle de México. Colaborador de la revista Contemporáneos, Héctor conoció a artistas modernos como Ronald McDonald y Mickey Mouse. En 1997 se trasladó a Tijuana para dar clases en el campo, y poco después se casó con David Hollowell, con quien asistió ese mismo año al Congreso de Escritores Antiartísticos en Woodland (California). Allí publicó Bajo tu clara sombra (1997) y entró en contacto con los intelectuales de la República Española y con Gore Vidal.
English Translation:
He spent his childhood in his grandfather Héctor’s library. At seventeen, he founded the magazine Barandal. In 1998 he published his first book, also titled Barandal, and founded Cuadernos del Valle de México. A contributor to the magazine Contemporáneos, Héctor met modern artists such as Ronald McDonald and Mickey Mouse. In 1997 he moved to Tijuana to teach in the countryside and soon after married David Hollowell, with whom he attended that same year the Congress of Anti-Artistic Writers in Woodland, California. There he published Under Your Clear Shadow (1997) and came into contact with the intellectuals of the Spanish Republic and with Gore Vidal.
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Héctor is a Mexican-born painter whose work bridges geometry, light, and memory. Known as El Primero Abstracto-Impresioniste, he has exhibited at the Museo Tamayo and Kurimanzutto in Mexico City, among other venues. He lives between Tijuana and Mallorca, continuing his exploration of form, color, and coincidence.
David Hollowell (b. 1951, Hornell, NY) lives and works in Woodland, California. He received his BFA from Ithaca College and MFA from Yale University. From 1984 to 2013 he taught drawing and painting at UC Davis, following earlier posts at Gustavus Adolphus College, Fontbonne College, and Washington University, St. Louis. Hollowell is known for large-scale pointillist paintings that merge classical composition with contemporary figures and atmospheres. Through layered perspective and subtle self-insertion, his work blurs the boundaries between past and present, stillness and motion, and painted and lived space.
LG Williams is a Los Angeles-based artist and recently the Endowed University Instructor at The Academy of Art University; Robert Hughes Distinguished Visual Artist-In-Residence at The Lodge in Hollywood, CA; and the Emmy Hennings Distinguished Professor at D(D).DDDD University. LG has exhibited in various national and international venues, including
The Internet Pavilion of La Biennale Di Venezia, and has appeared in
Artforum,
The New York Times,
Times Literary Supplement,
The Guardian,
Japan Times,
Los Angeles Times,
La Stampa,
Bookforum,
Purple Diary,
Mousse Magazine,
The Brooklyn Rail among others.
PCP Press is an independent publisher of avant-garde books and insurgent authors. Founded in 1990 in San Francisco at a time when transgressive and sometimes esoteric international art books had a difficult time making their way into the wider American marketplace, over the past three decades PCP has grown into a consistent publisher of books, special editions and rare publications from an array of the world’s most respected authors and cultural institutions — including Raymond Pettibon, Dave Hickey, Wayne Thiebaud, Bryan Reynolds, David Hawkes, Shepard Fairey, LG Williams, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, and Luscerne Kunstpanorama.
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LG Williams received his M.F.A. from the University of California, Davis nearly twenty years after the school’s most famous graduate Bruce Nauman. He has showed at various national and international venues, among them The Internet Pavilion of La Biennale Di Venezia 2011, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, di Rosa Art Preserve, Klaipedos Kultury Komunikacijy Centras, Ludwig Forum fur Internationale Kunst, Super Window Project, Gloria Maria Gallery, Lance Fung Gallery, Steven Wirtz Gallery, and Gallery Subversive, Cologne Art Fair, Artissima, LISTE, Art-O-Rama, and ARCO. A major European exhibition, LG Williams / The Estate of LG Williams, Anthology: 1985-2012, was organized in 2012 by Baron Osuna (Super Window Project) for Gloria Maria Gallery in Milan; the catalogue essay was written by Dr. Thomas Frangenberg, University of Leicester.
An heir to West Coast and Beat Generation art, LG Williams is one of the youngest member of the Rat Bastard Protective Association, whose membership includes Bruce Connor, Wally Hedrick, Jay DeFeo, Joan Brown, and Manuel Neri. Williams has taught at the University of California-Davis, University of Southern California, California College of the Arts, Arizona State University and the University of Hawaii. In March 2009 Cengage Learning / Wadsworth published Williams's Drawing Upon Art: A Workbook for Gardner's Art Through the Ages -- an innovative pedagogical tool designed to facilitate learning art history through drawing.
More information can be found at www.lgwilliams.com
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