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Williams was born in New Bern, North Carolina.
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Kent Williams
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He attended the Pratt Institute in New York City and graduated in 1984.
Career
Williams, a consummate draftsman and painter, has realized his work through various other artistic channels as well. That of the illustrated word and the graphic novel (including The Fountain with filmmaker Darren Aronofsky), printmaking, photography, design, architecture, and film. His monograph, Kent Williams, Amalgam: Paintings & Drawings, 1992-2007, with text by Edward Lucie-Smith and Julia Morton, is the most comprehensive collection of Williams" work to date.
From 1983 to 1985, Kent Williams was a regular contributor to Marvel " Epic Illustrated.
M. historian Les Daniels noted that Williams" "impressionistic painting style is an example of the new look that District of Columbia"s Vertigo line brought to comics." He was a visiting instructor at the Pratt Institute, and has taught at the California College of the Arts, San Francisco. East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, and the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Valencia, California.
Williams lives in Los Angeles and teaches painting at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. In addition, he is an Master of Fine Arts mentor faculty at the Laguna College of Art and Design.
His work has been the subject of a number of solo exhibitions including shows in New York City.
San Francisco. Sundance, Utah. The Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina. In Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he is represented by Evoke Contemporary Gallery.
And in Los Angeles, where he is represented by The Merry Karnowsky Gallery.
His painting Trace Double-Portrait was exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, District of Columbia, as part of the Outwin Boochever 2006 Portrait Exhibition.
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