Mike Williams

 

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Born in Sumter, SC 1963.
Twenty one years after graduating from the University of South Carolina with a BFA in Studio Art, Mike Williams has become one of the South’s most acclaimed visual artists. An avid outdoorsman who grew up hunting and fishing, the Sumter, SC native identifies with the natural world. It’s the “Fish Paintings” that have garnered him so much attention, pulsating as metaphors for life; but the ethereal, watery landscapes clearly reveal the artist’s mystical sensibilities.

Williams is an artist who has managed to create a style that serves as a synthesis between the representational world of tradition and the emotional world explored by “modern” abstract painters. His work is lyrical and visually intriguing.

Manipulation of the painted surface to achieve space and form has always been critical to Williams but spontaneity is the heartbeat of this artist’s work. While adhering to subjects he knows and holds dear; the South Carolina swamps, marshes, barrier islands, and marine life, he is able to depict his subjects with an emotional connection unlike any other.
Mike and his wife Elizabeth have a son and a daughter, and live in Columbia, SC.
 
 

Born: 1963 Sumter, SC
Education:
University of South Carolina BFA Studio Art 1990

Williams works may be found in these Permanent Collections:
The Columbia Museum of Art
South Carolina State Museum
Emory University, Atlanta, GA
The South Carolina State Art Collection
The Pritchard’s Island Foundation
The Spring Island Trust
Palmetto Richland Hospital, Columbia, SC

Selected Solo Exhibitions:
Summer Show, Cheryl Newby Gallery, Pawleys Island, SC 2010
Recent Works, Cheryl Newby Gallery, Pawleys Island, SC 2007
In the Round, Goodall Gallery, Columbia College, Columbia, SC 2006
New Work, Cheryl Newby Gallery, Pawleys Island, SC 2004 and 2006
Conception, Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, USC Upstate, Spartanburg, SC 2003-4
Translation, Francis Marion University, Florence, SC 2002
Translation; Interpretation of Pritchard’s Island, USC Beaufort, SC 2001
The Swamp, A Contemplative Space, Sumter Gallery of Art, Sumter, SC 1998
Mike Williams: New Paintings, Seabury Hall Gallery, Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, Evanston, IL 1996

Selected Group Exhibitions:
Abstract in Nature – Laura Spong, Paul Reed, Katie Walker, and Mike Williams
Gallery 80808, Columbia, SC 2007
Nine Exceptional Artists, The Cheryl Newby Gallery, Pawleys Island, SC 2005
First Annual Southeastern Sculptors Competition: Aiken County Historical Museum, Aiken, SC 2005
Up From the Mud, Aaron Baldwin/Mike Williams Vista Studios Gallery 80808
Columbia, SC 2005
Turning Wood, Painting Landscapes, Upstairs Gallery, Tryon, NC 2001
Return to Sender, The Postcard Group, Lake County Museum, Chicago, IL 2001
Terrain, Carillon Building Lobby, Charlotte, NC 1997
What’s for Dinner, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC 1995

Grain
Lonely Pine
Box
Barrier

Grain by Mike Williams

Medium: Acrylic & Ink on Canvas
Size: 48" x 60"
Price: $6,700
SOLD

Lonely Pine by Mike Williams

Medium: Acrylic and Ink on Canvas
Sizes: 36" x 36"
Price: $4,500

Medium: Acrylic & Ink on Canvas
Size: 48" x 48"
Price: $5,400

"Barrier"

Medium: Acrylic & Ink on Canvas
Size: 30" x 40"
Price: $4,200

Schooling
Profile
Tide
Weaving Away


Medium: Acrylic and Ink on Canvas
Size:50" x 70
Price: $8,000

Medium: Acrylic and Ink on Canvas
Size: 40"x 47"
Price: $5,000

Medium: Acrylic and Ink on Canvas
Size: 36" x 36"
Price: $4,300

SOLD

Medium: Acrylic and Ink on Canvas
Size: 36" x 48"
Price: $4,750

Congo XII
Sunny Side
Congo X
Periphery

Congo XII by Mike Williams

Medium: Acrylic & Ink on Canvas
Sizes: 20" x 20"
Price: $1,850

Sunny Side by Mike Williams

Medium: Acrylic and Ink on Canvas
Sizes: 30" x 40"
Price: $4,200

Congo X by Mike Williams

Medium: Acrylic & Ink on Canvas
Sizes: 20" x 20"
Price: $1,850

Periphery by Mike Williams

Medium: Acrylic and Ink on Canvas
Size: 48" x 72"
Price: 7,600

 

Going with the Flow
Ridge
Congo XI
Flow

Going with the Flow

Medium: Acrylic & Ink on Canvas
Sizes: 30" x 30"
Price: $3,200

Ridge by Mike Williams

Medium: Acrylic & Ink on Canvas
Sizes: 30" x 40"
Price: $4,200

Congo XI by Mike Williams

Medium: Acrylic & Ink on Canvas
Sizes: 20" x 20"
Price: $1,850

Flow by Mike Williams

Medium: Acrylic & Ink on Canvas
Sizes: 48" x 60"
Price: $6,700

 

 

 

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