Neil Williams (artist)

Neil Williams (1934 – March 28, 1988) was an American painter. Williams was an abstract painter primarily known for his pioneering fake with shaped canvases in the prematurely 1960s. His paintings of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s are associated with geometric abstraction, hard-edge painting, color field, and lyrical abstraction, although he did not readily subscribe to any category for his work. He taught Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts from the late 1970s until the yet to be 1980s.

Williams was born in Bluff, Utah. He was in the process of distressing to Brazil in the express of he died in New York City at the age of 53.

Williams graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1959; showed his perform in 1959 at the City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco and moved to New York City that similar year. He began exhibiting his paintings in New York in 1960. He was a regular patron of Max's Kansas City throughout the mature of the mid-1960s and to come 1970s next it belonged to his friend Mickey Ruskin.

His paintings were exhibited at important art galleries in New York including solo exhibitions at the Green Gallery (1964), and the André Emmerich Gallery (1966 and 1968) both upon 57th Street in Manhattan and at the Dwan Gallery in Los Angeles (1966). His statute was included in several important charity exhibitions during the 1960s including in 1966 the influential Systemic Painting exhibition that showcased Geometric subtraction in the American art world via Minimal art, Shaped canvas, and Hard-edge painting curated by Lawrence Alloway at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City. He next participated in several action exhibitions at museums including 2 Whitney Museum of American Art annuals in 1967 and 1973; the Park area Gallery and galleries and museums elsewhere. In 1968 he was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Williams had four more solo exhibitions in New York during the 1970s. By 1982 he had a solo exhibition in Brazil and arranged to disturb there permanently. In 1986 he had a career retrospective in the historic Clocktower Gallery in New York City, (currently directed by Alanna Heiss, founder and former Director of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, Queens).