ABOUT
Hilary Williams is an artist living in San Francisco. She works in a number of mediums creating screen prints, paintings, drawings, and dolls. Hilary received her BA in printmaking with a focus in screen printing particularly. She still works in this medium passionately and incorporates its ideas and methods in her other work. Through layering and collage, she makes dense pieces that deal with the absurdity and poignancy of our world by laughing, crying, or standing back in awe.
Hilary uses collages of photography, drawing, painting, patterning and other marks to create layers of images and meaning. Her works deal with a variety of emotions about the coexistence of our urban landscape, nature and humanity. She is continually inspired by her surroundings, todays urban and natural environments, and has drawn some inspirations as well from Dada, Surrealism and Pop art. Along with architecture and urban themes, in some pieces she also brings in the rural, depicting farm animals estranged or at ease in urban landscapes. There is some humor, irony as well as melancholy and reflection in these pieces that always threads through her work in some way.
In creating her screen prints she takes most of her own photographs, and each other stencil is created by hand, with ten to twenty layers stenciled and then printed on each piece. Her paintings are composed of stretched fabrics on boards. She then layers acrylic with screen printing and other mixed media.
Hilary grew up in the bay area, and received her BA in Printmaking from California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland 2002. She now lives, works and actively participates in the artist community of San Francisco.
Hilary uses collages of photography, drawing, painting, patterning and other marks to create layers of images and meaning. Her works deal with a variety of emotions about the coexistence of our urban landscape, nature and humanity. She is continually inspired by her surroundings, todays urban and natural environments, and has drawn some inspirations as well from Dada, Surrealism and Pop art. Along with architecture and urban themes, in some pieces she also brings in the rural, depicting farm animals estranged or at ease in urban landscapes. There is some humor, irony as well as melancholy and reflection in these pieces that always threads through her work in some way.
In creating her screen prints she takes most of her own photographs, and each other stencil is created by hand, with ten to twenty layers stenciled and then printed on each piece. Her paintings are composed of stretched fabrics on boards. She then layers acrylic with screen printing and other mixed media.
Hilary grew up in the bay area, and received her BA in Printmaking from California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland 2002. She now lives, works and actively participates in the artist community of San Francisco.
ARTIST RESUMÉ
Education
* May 2002 - received BFA in Printmaking from the California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California
* March 2006 - internship at Tinhorn Public Works Gallery, San Francisco, California
* Summer 1997 - attended Interlochen Center for the Arts program, Interlochen, Michigan
* Summer 1995 & 96 - attended CCAC Pre College Program, Oakland, California
Awards
* March 2002 - Trillium Prize. This award entitles recipient to create work in a unique professional print shop. Trillium Press, Brisbane, CA
* April 1999 - Yozo Hamaguchi scholarship in printmaking at CCAC
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
* February 2008 - Nectar, San Francisco, CA
* October 2007 - Frankee Uno Gallery, San Francisco, CA
* November 2007 - Secession Art & Design, San Francisco, CA.
* December 2007 - The Press Club, Portland, Or
* February 2007 - Hotel Biron, San Francisco, CA
* December 2006 - Levy Art & Architecture, San Francisco, CA.
* July 2006 - Blo Salon, San Francisco, CA
* November 2003 - Life Cafe and Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
* October 2002 - Missing Piece Gallery, Iowa City, IA
* June 2002 - 40th Street Gallery, Oakland, CA. Shown with Mike Start
* May 2002 and November 2001 - Print Shop Gallery, Oakland CA
* March 2002 - Center Gallery, Oakland, CA. BFA Show
* December 1999 - Printshop Gallery, Oakland, CA . Shown with Deth P. Sun
* September 1999 - North Gallery, Oakland, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
* June 2008 - Varnish Fine Art, San Francisco, CA, 30 Under 30
* June 2008 - Secession Art and Design, San Francisco, CA
* June 2008 - Urban-Eyes, San Francisco, CA
* November 2007 - Varnish Fine Art, San Francisco, CA, Off The Wall
* December 2007 - Lauryn Taylor Fine Art, Carmel, CA, Holiday Lites
* July 2007 - Outer Edge Studio, Monterey, CA, Favorites Show
* June 2007 - Market Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Re Art Show
* June 2007 - Chillin\' Productions Show, San Francisco, CA
* May 2007 - Lobot Gallery, Oakland, CA. Auction
* May 2007 - Artizmo Gallery - San Rafel, CA
* June 2006 - Artist X - Change Gallery, San Francisco, CA
* May 2006 - City Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
* December 2006 - Chillin\' Productions Show, San Francisco, CA
* July 2006 - Tinhorn Public Works Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Facing West.
* July 2006 - Lobot Gallery, Oakland, CA. Virus Exhibition.
* September 2002 - Sun Gallery, Hayward, CA. Printmaking 2002.
* August 2002 - City Arts Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Trillium Press Exhibition, Traditional and Contemporary Printmaking.
* July 2002 - Blue Catfish Studios, Portland, OR. Artist Exhibition.
* May 2002 - received BFA in Printmaking from the California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California
* March 2006 - internship at Tinhorn Public Works Gallery, San Francisco, California
* Summer 1997 - attended Interlochen Center for the Arts program, Interlochen, Michigan
* Summer 1995 & 96 - attended CCAC Pre College Program, Oakland, California
Awards
* March 2002 - Trillium Prize. This award entitles recipient to create work in a unique professional print shop. Trillium Press, Brisbane, CA
* April 1999 - Yozo Hamaguchi scholarship in printmaking at CCAC
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
* February 2008 - Nectar, San Francisco, CA
* October 2007 - Frankee Uno Gallery, San Francisco, CA
* November 2007 - Secession Art & Design, San Francisco, CA.
* December 2007 - The Press Club, Portland, Or
* February 2007 - Hotel Biron, San Francisco, CA
* December 2006 - Levy Art & Architecture, San Francisco, CA.
* July 2006 - Blo Salon, San Francisco, CA
* November 2003 - Life Cafe and Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
* October 2002 - Missing Piece Gallery, Iowa City, IA
* June 2002 - 40th Street Gallery, Oakland, CA. Shown with Mike Start
* May 2002 and November 2001 - Print Shop Gallery, Oakland CA
* March 2002 - Center Gallery, Oakland, CA. BFA Show
* December 1999 - Printshop Gallery, Oakland, CA . Shown with Deth P. Sun
* September 1999 - North Gallery, Oakland, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
* June 2008 - Varnish Fine Art, San Francisco, CA, 30 Under 30
* June 2008 - Secession Art and Design, San Francisco, CA
* June 2008 - Urban-Eyes, San Francisco, CA
* November 2007 - Varnish Fine Art, San Francisco, CA, Off The Wall
* December 2007 - Lauryn Taylor Fine Art, Carmel, CA, Holiday Lites
* July 2007 - Outer Edge Studio, Monterey, CA, Favorites Show
* June 2007 - Market Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Re Art Show
* June 2007 - Chillin\' Productions Show, San Francisco, CA
* May 2007 - Lobot Gallery, Oakland, CA. Auction
* May 2007 - Artizmo Gallery - San Rafel, CA
* June 2006 - Artist X - Change Gallery, San Francisco, CA
* May 2006 - City Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
* December 2006 - Chillin\' Productions Show, San Francisco, CA
* July 2006 - Tinhorn Public Works Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Facing West.
* July 2006 - Lobot Gallery, Oakland, CA. Virus Exhibition.
* September 2002 - Sun Gallery, Hayward, CA. Printmaking 2002.
* August 2002 - City Arts Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Trillium Press Exhibition, Traditional and Contemporary Printmaking.
* July 2002 - Blue Catfish Studios, Portland, OR. Artist Exhibition.