![]() ![]() ![]() Air Force for four years, Williams earned his BA from Chicago Teachers College in 1969, and his MFA from Howard University in 1976. In addition to the influence AFRICOBRA has had on his development as an artist, the distinctive aesthetic style Williams employs has been informed by a lifetime of international travel and a diverse range of professional, intellectual and aesthetic experiences. Defined by what he calls “mimesis at midpoint,” his images unfold in a liminal space between what we can see and describe objectively, and what must be thought or felt intuitively. Williams’ paintings depict a polyrhythmic visual representation of life at the intersection of figuration and abstraction. Gerald Williams is an American painter whose work explores culture, place and identity from a global perspective. Williams is one of the original five founders of AFRICOBRA, an internationally influential Black arts collective formed on the South Side of Chicago in 1967. ![]()
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