Griff Williams is a San Francisco based fine artist whose paintings have been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide, and his work has been reviewed in Art in America, Flash Art and Artnet.com. Williams’ methodology involves
an elaborate paint by number process he reinvented.  Each segmented area of the composition is assigned to a specific color, a palette professionally mixed to replicate the distinctive colors in a 1950’s Color Craft paint by numbers set. The hand-made application involves repeated layers of poured transparent resin and stenciled enamel shapes.  Intially, this meticulous process is belied by the graphic flatness and slick surfaces of the work, which may seem manufactured or igital. Williams presents an extravagant visionary experience, a blend of the material and the optical. This calculated echnique speaks to us of setting aside the romanticism of the past. “At the heart of all my paintings is the landscape as I grew to know in Montana. I use the land as a subject and metaphor. There is a centuries old tradition of mythologizing the land in both painting and photography. My work has sought to address this.”

Education:
1993 MFA, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1989 BFA, University of Montana, Missoula, MT
1986 Yale Summer Arts Program,Yale University, New Haven, CT

Exhibitions:
2012 Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2010 "Griff Williams: it's not down on true places never are", Missoula Museum of Art, Missoula, MT
         "Griff Williams: it's not down on true places never are", Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, MT
         Turner Carrol Gallery, West Contemporary group show
2009 Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2008 "Nothing Exists in Itself", Stephen Wirtz Gallery
2005 Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
         Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
         The Suburban, Chicago Illinois
         Art Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico
         Crocker Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
2004 Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento, CA
2003 Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
         San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
2001 Galerie Claude Deby, Brussells, Belgium
1999 New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
         White Columns, New York, NY
1998 Rocket Gallery, London
         Galerie Claude Deby, Brussells, Belgium
1997 Lutz Tuetloff Gallery, Berlin, Germany
         Hermetic Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
1995 Multiples Gallery, San Francisco, CA
         Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
         TRI Gallery, Hollywood, CA
         Foxley Leach Gallery, Washington, DC
         Victoria Room, San Francisco, CA
1994 Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute
         Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
         Works/San Jose Radius 1994, San Jose, CA
         Southern Exposure, Drawing First, San Francisco
1993 “At Odds” WPA, Washington, D.C.
         Walter McBean Gallery, San Francisco, CA
         Holter Museum, ANA, Helena, Montana