Bernard Williams in Residence

Thanks to support from the Visual Artists Network, Chicago artist Bernard Williams will be in residence with Legion Arts November 9th through Nov 14th. His week-long residency will include an artist talk, open studio, reception and artist brunch.

On Tuesday, Nov 10th at 7 pm, Williams will present a talk and slide show about his work at the African-American Museum of Iowa, located at 55 12th Ave SE, Cedar Rapids. The event is free and open to the public.During his Cedar Rapids residency, Williams will be making a new piece of sculpture in the main gallery at CSPS, 1103 Third St. SE, Cedar Rapids. The public may meet Williams and watch his work in progress Wednesday and Thursday during normal gallery hours, 11 am to 6 pm.

On Friday, Nov. 13th at 5 p.m., Williams will be on hand to discuss his residency project at a public reception at CSPS. Williams will also attend the artist brunch Saturday, Nov. 14th at 10 a.m. at CSPS. All area artists are welcome.

Other artists featured in the Translations exhibit include Cynthia Beth Rubin and Bob Gluck, New Haven; John Giorno, New York City; Clive Leung, Washington DC; and Ignatius Widiapradja, Des Moines.

Nov 9 through 14 | 2009
CSPS and other locations | Cedar Rapids
Free admission

The image below is from Legion Arts, a small art where Buffalo Chart will be on display through December 2009.

Bernard Williams in Remix

Bernard Williams speaks about his artwork in the Remix exhibition @ AGO at the Musee des beaux-arts de l’Ontario.



Bernard William’s installation “Buffalo Chart” combines popular and cultural iconography in the form of individual black cut outs resembling silhouettes. Together the work presents a pictographic alternative interpretation of the history of America. A variation of "Buffalo Chart" was exhibited at Slate Gallery in "Nighty-Nite," his first solo show in New York City. Recently, a variation of Buffalo Chart was exhibited in REMIX: New Modernities in a Post Indian World, at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in New York, and at the Musee des beaux-arts de l’Ontario.