brian r. williams

new web site

2007-05-23T09:09:00.000-05:00

Everybody! My site is moving to www.brianrwilliams.com. Check it out. I will be using this space to announce news and updates, art sales, and post my soon-to-be-famous Brian the Art Blog.

Again, that new site is: www.brianrwilliams.com.

Sold!

2006-08-08T10:26:00.000-05:00

send up the flares

i could swear i saw a light coming on

the passenger

Clocks, Unfinished

Abhaya

2006-06-16T09:48:00.000-05:00

Abhaya is a Buddhist mudra, or hand gesture, meant to represent fearlessness; in this case, fearlessness of death. Statues and artwork depicting Buddha giving the Abhaya mudra often show him standing, feet together, right hand raised to shoulder height, left hand hanging at the side of the body. I chose this same posture for my sleepwalker.

Totemic

2006-05-28T12:03:00.000-05:00

send up the flares

the passenger ("clack" you disconnect from me)

dark & long

the machine

don't look! your happiness just got deadly

i could swear i saw a light coming on

underwatermetalshine

When I was young I would love to look at illustrated novels, like Treasure Island, and try to figure out the story just from the pictures. The illustrations were often accompanied with a caption; usually a line from the story. Even when I knew the story by heart, I liked to wonder why a particular scene was important enough to be illustrated. It was often a pivotal plot point or climax. I love expressing that feeling of imminent excitement, the narrative hook, that draws you in and captures your imagination. In my drawings, I present to the viewer a picture from an unwritten story, with only the images and the caption to explain the scene - and to allude to what has happened and what is to come.

I use a lot of technological imagery, particulary antiquated forms of transportation such as steam locomotives, ocean liners and prop-driven airplanes. Aside from their aesthetic value, I choose them because they are images from the past and the past exists to us only in the form of narratives - of stories. They are out of touch with our present surroundings; therefore they create a surreal atmosphere that is detached from reality, almost dreamlike.

Oneiric

2006-05-26T09:43:00.000-05:00

Oneiric (Oh-NIE-rik): from the Greek "oneiros," meaning "dream."

Expectation

Fulfillment

Bliss

St. Paul

Exit Music

Emblematic

2006-05-24T19:09:00.000-05:00

Sindhu II (2003)

Sindhu III

Madame X (Study From J.S. Sargent) (2002)

Portrait of Karen (2003)

Clocks - Unfinished (2003)

Pictoric

2006-05-24T18:56:00.000-05:00

Illustration Portfolio

Okay, so a lion, a dolphin, and a squirrel walk into a bar...