DIMENSIONS AND TITLES OF PAINTINGS, NUMBERED, STARTING FROM LEFT TO RIGHT

REZ WILLIAMS
P.O Box 3000-3143
West Tisbury, MA. 02575
email: paintings@rezwilliams.com

Archived Work 2005

Archived Work 2006

Selected criticism:

"(Rez Williams) paints out of West Tisbury on Martha's Vineyard, but he's about as far from one of those sticky-sweet chroniclers of island life and times as one can get. His scenes of the Vineyard smash into your eyes like crescendos. The spaces warp and move. The colors clash and rebound. Williams is light-years beyond the Vineyard, yet no one has distilled it better"
Thomas Hoving, former director, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

"..Though not overtly political in nature, Williams' subject matter is conceptually charged with a subtext of social gravity. With these issues in mind, Williams presents these trawlers in a new series of paintings, STEEL WALLS AND WATERLINES. This large scale body of work, which includes six by ten foot canvasses, monumentalizes the subject with reverence and an eye towards the unpredictable. The vibrantly colored and distinctive paintings are portraits of working boats, icons of the often unromantic reality of the fishing industry. These paintings also represent the painterly pursuits of Williams, who utilizes a mixture of short, precise brush strokes and wide, sweeping bands of color. This style enables him to reach the essence of his subject matter while avoiding the often banal documentary nature of realist painting. The paintings are expressionistic documents of a culture and a way of life."
Mark H. C. Bessire, director, Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, Maine