About

Marrying techniques of painting and printmaking with processes of carving and collage, William’s visual terrains are as layered in meaning as they are material. In these works, scales of personal narrative and biography merge and expand across historical timelines and into the realm of mythology. The result is a radical connection to generational memory that gives form to the varying complexities of diasporic identity and makes material its continual transformation. Presenting fourteen new paintings, Things Like This Don’t Happen Here advances William’s ongoing investigation of language, …