The Pollock Krasner Foundation announced today that Todd Williamson is one of the 2010 Foundation Award Grant winners. 

Great appreciation goes to my references Dr Jennifer Chi, Peter Frank, George Billis, and Shelby White.

Press Release

The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc. announces 125 grants totaling $2,093,140 to visual artists internationally in fiscal year 2008-2009. 


September 14, 2009

NEW YORK, NY — Now entering its twenty-fifth year of grant making, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc. has reaffirmed its mission of supporting individual visual artists worldwide. The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc. is pleased to announce 125 grants totaling $2,093,140 were awarded to visual artists and organizations internationally in fiscal year 2008-2009. Click here for a list of artists awarded grants in fiscal year 2008-2009. These grants support the artists' personal and/or professional expenses for one year. Since its inception in 1985, the Foundation has awarded over 50 million dollars to artists in 72 countries. 

he lesson of the great American artist Mark Rothko has been assimilated and elaborated by Todd Williamson in an admirable way; the monochrome color fields of the American master have been re-elaborated with the addition of a score of horizontal lines arranged in a sequence from the top downwards, that are suddenly joined by blades of light that penetrate the mind, rather than the eye, of the observer.

Horizontal linearity:

The interior need for order in the system of thought and pictorial research has made Williamson proceed with a kind of score on the canvas, a kind of plot, a scheme by means of which to read the work. 

Like musical scores bring order to the sounds transmitted by an indeterminate chaos of simple noises, turning them into a melody, Williamson gives pure color a visual and emotional order through the horizontal lines.

I have decided to move from LA Contemporary to George Billis Gallery in Los Angeles.  The move will officially take place during the LA Art Fair!  I am very excited about this and I think it is a good move for me.  2010 promises to be an interesting year full of new directions and accomplishments.  I am being considered for a big foundation grant, knock on wood, and I am very excited about the artists group that we are putting together.  It is a strong group of artists with similar ideas in their work.  We are all Los Angeles artists and based in the same general area.  

Happy New Year to all!

Todd

Cole Sternberg, Dan Goldman, Steve Burtch, Joe Davidson, Susan Woods, Adam Gross, Kay Richards, and myself, Todd Williamson have started a Los Angeles art group.  It is a movement of artists that see the world from the eyes of a artist that lives and works in Los Angeles.  We are working and doing shows together.  We support each other and we will be doing our first group show in the spring.  Please google everyone and see what you think of the work.  There are some truly talented artists in the group and I am looking forward to seeing where this goes!

Todd

Curator Rachel W. SHI

The genesis for creation is awareness and imagination.  Vision is the art of seeing the invisible to the eyes.  VISIONAIRE is a "Felliniesque" extravagant idiosyncratic Contemporary Art Exhibition presented by Fellini Gallery bringing Shanghai a roster of international renowned artists- Ed Moses, Laddie John Dill, Todd Williamson, Lolo  Del Fresno, Rimi Yang.  This is the first and most extensive exhibition in China of these world celebrated artists.

"Todd Williamson has been concretized and defined in terms of color and light: the light of the southern states and the spatiality and sense of infinity.  The sense of infinity comes from the immense plains in which Williamson interpreted in his painting, through a superimposition and succession of horizontal levels and blades of light, sometimes rarefied, sometimes inspired, sometimes violent. 

Todd Williamson's paintings balance between fervid, even blistering intensity and cool restraint.  They are invested with an unyielding fire-not just an eternal flame, nothing so removed and symbolic as that, but the sense of a real , roaring conflagration.  The furnace never goes out in these works, but it never engulfs us either.  It is like looking into the universe at the stars.  The red giants, white dwarves and supernovae populating Williamson's galaxy keep burning, surrounded by the frigid vastness.  On a human scale, they are voices raging in an uncaring, uncomprehending wilderness.  And in that isolation, that frustration they seem to burn all the more intensely. 

Rachel W. Shi  Fellini Gallery September 2009

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