FLETCHER WILLIAMS III
Interdisciplinary
Lives and works in Charleston, SC
(b. 1987, African American)
8-Word Artist Statement:
“The South is romantic but also quite hideous.”
Fletcher Williams’s work engages the rituals and traditions of the American South. His interest in the way we seek to establish place and identity has prompted a working methodology that incorporates both found and natural materials and an exhibition practice that utilizes public and historical sites. Williams often paints with Spanish moss, builds house-like structures with salvaged wood and tin roof, and fashions delicate sculptures out of handwoven palmetto roses. His work is both architectural and figural, tactile, and multisensory and unveils his curiosity for both people and place, material, and process.
ABOUT
- Williams received his BFA from The Cooper Union: For the Advancement in Science and Art (2010).
- He is a 2018 recipient of a Dean Collection St(art)up grant, which served as lead funding for Williams’s latest site-specific installation, Promiseland.
- He has exhibited his work at: Aiken-Rhett House (Charleston, SC), The Mint Museum (Charlotte, NC), 701 Center for Contemporary Art (Columbia, SC), Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art (Brooklyn, NY), San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art + African American Museum of Fine Art (San Diego, CA), among others.
- He was in residence at the Gibbes Museum of Art as a Visiting Artist in 2019.
- Williams has been published in: The New York Times, Garden & Gun Magazine, BOMB Magazine, VICE, Wall Street Journal, among others.
PRESS + MEDIA
Fletcher Williams’s World
[Garden & Gun]
Now is the time to listen to your artists.
[The Post and Courier]
Review: For artist Fletcher Williams III, a white picket fence is a national divide
[The Post and Courier]
Fletcher Williams Installs Promiseland Exhibit at the Aiken-Rhett House
[Aiken-Rhett House]