#didierwilliam

[supportblackart]

This was our favorite piece by Didier Williams @dueyart at @VoltaShow last night. The last day to win a free tour of the fair is today, trust us when we say this is an opportunity you definitely don’t want to miss. The Aesthetics of Matter curated by @MickaleneThomas and @RaquelChevremont speak volumes about visibility in the art world and is definitely a must see! - @VoltaShow has partnered with @SupportBlackArt to grant 20 lucky winners the chance to win a free tour at VOLTA 2018 Art Fair at Pier 90 in NYC on March 9th at 7pm. Contest Rules: Follow @SupportBlackArt Follow @VOLTAshow Post a photo of the work of an artist who has shown at VOLTA or is showing at VOLTA 2018, giving proper credit to the artist. Be sure to include the hashtag #VOLTAxSupportBlackArt in your post. Contest ends March 8th at 8pm! . . #supportblackart #didierwilliam #twosuns #voltashow #voltany2018 #haitianartist #blackart #visibilitymatters #mixedmedia #artlovers #nycartscene #artfair #artinnyc

[willhutnick]

Didier William at Volta curated by Mickalene Thomas @dueyart @voltashow @mickalenethomas #didierwilliam #voltany (at VOLTA Art Fair)

[vicsterhao]

Curtains, Stages, and Shadows, Act I #didierwilliam #instaartist #artist #instaart #art #gallery #galleryhopping #instadaily #latergram #nofilter #jamesfuentes (at JAMES FUENTES LLC) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqTqwExHwOY/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=w0zh4laqo9y9

[artinfluxharlem]

#Repost @tammowhammo with @repostapp ・・・ Getting excited about @passengerpigeonpress ‘s 1️⃣ anniversary exhibition!!! 🎂FRIDAY, 6pm @lamaisondartny ! Sneak peak at our new @dueyart print!! #quiettime #polymer #didierwilliam @fluxartfair (at La Maison d'Art)

[tigerstrikesasteroidnetwork]

NY / Didier William: We Will Win

Ti Fre / Little Brother, 2017, 18 x 24 inches Ink, Collage, Wood Carving on Panel

Didier William: We Will Win October 20 - November 19; 2017 Opening Reception: Friday, October 20, 6-9pm

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Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York is pleased to present We Will Win, an exhibition of new work by Didier William.

Didier William’s mixed media paintings are at once highly calibrated and consciously oblique. His coy yet complex narratives unfurl to offer multiple histories, those fixed and fluid, rigid and supple, diasporic and rooted. In one work, The Death of Marat becomes a stage onto which Jacques-Louis David’s propagan- dized martyr is reconstituted as a patterned shape- shifter. French Colonial aesthetics are appropriated and redirected, a Girondin knife turned into a Haitian Machete. Within this dual-revolutionary struggle, William’s figures resist our impulse to name, label, or gender them and as a result forcefully maintain their autonomy. The paintings themselves reflect this resistance to classification; they merge the processes of collage and printmaking with more traditional paint media.

The synthetic ploy of the stage is explored as both a theatrical principal as well as a pictorial motif, yet reductive readings are frustrated by actors that continually defer a set role or location. These characters appear to dislocate themselves at will from their otherwise rational relationship to the ground. In a small portrait by William, eyes proliferate to become skin - both camouflaging the form and reflecting our gaze. The body is fragmented by pattern, and we succumb to its ornamentation as the subject sinks deeper into the space beyond itself, flickering between presence and absence. The eyes of many sitters meet the eyes of many viewers, with kaleidoscopic reflections breaking continuity, as if to intentionally dismantle the possibility that we might objectify the subject.

Didier William is originally from Port-au-prince Haiti. He received his BFA in painting from The Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA in painting and printmaking from Yale University School of Art. His work has been exhibited at the Bronx Museum of Art, the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach CA, The Fraenkel Gallery, Frederick and Freiser Gallery, and Gallery Schuster in Berlin. He was an artist in residence at the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation in Brooklyn, NY and has taught at Yale School of Art, Vassar College, Columbia University, and SUNY Purchase. He is currently the Chair of the MFA Program at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

[supportblackart]

Marassa Jumeaux (2017) by Didier William @dueyart 👏🏾 | 48"x60” See more of his work at @voltashow March 9th!! - @VoltaShow has partnered with @SupportBlackArt to grant 20 lucky winners the chance to win a free tour at VOLTA 2018 Art Fair at Pier 90 in NYC on March 9th at 7pm. Afterparty after the tour featuring @Tygapaw 🙌🏾 - Contest Rules: Follow @SupportBlackArt Follow @VOLTAshow Post a photo of the work of an artist who has shown at VOLTA or is showing at VOLTA 2018, giving proper credit to the artist. Be sure to include the hashtag #VOLTAxSupportBlackArt in your post. Contest ends March 8th at 8pm . . #supportblackart #voltashow #didierwilliam #marassajumeaux #theaestheticsofmatter #curatedsection #voltany2018 #blackart #artlovers #contest #nycartscene #armoryweek #contemporaryart #armoryartsweek

[willhutnick]

Amazing solo show by @dueyart at @tsa_ny #tsany #tigerstrikesasteroid #didierwilliam (at Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York)

[charlaharlow]

@dueyart with The Aesthetics of Matter at @voltashow. • #didierwilliam #aestheticsofmatter #voltashow #haitianartist #haiti #contemporaryart #fineart #blackartists #blackart #newyorkcity #armoryweek (at VOLTA Art Fair)

[jmsdev]

A painting by Didier William, one of 18 featured artists in ‘The Heart is a Lonely Hunter,’ the upcoming group show at Fraenkel Gallery.  

Didier shares a bit about his process: "Most often I work horizontally, on the ground or a table top so I'm walking around them quite a bit. I like for the orientation of the work to be continually flexible right up until the paintings are finished." 

You can view more of Didier's work here. 

“Look through the key hole” (2013).  © Didier William

[supportblackart]

This year’s Volta @Voltashow NY fair is going to be awesome! Artist @mickalenethomas and collector and consultant @racquelchevremont are co-organizing the fair’s Curated Section, “The Aesthetics of Matter,” which looks at eight artists broadly working in collage 🙌🏾: Kennedy Yanko @kennedyyanko, Christie Neptune @cnvisualart, David Shrobe @daveshrobe, Tomashi Jackson @tomashi_ashi, Devin Morris @devinnmorris, Troy Michie @troymichie, Kameelah Janan Rasheed @kameelahr, and Didier William @dueyart. The fair runs from March 7-11, 2018. Be sure to follow @deuxfemmesnoires @mickalenethomas @racquelchevremont and @voltashow for more! Image: photo by Guillermo Cano . . #supportblackart #voltashow #deuxfemmesnoires #mickalenethomas #racquelchevremont #theaestheticsofmatter #curatedsection #voltany2018 #collageart #contemporaryart #armoryartsweek #artnet #kennedyyanko #christieneptune #davidshrobe #tomashijackson #devinmorris #troymichie #kameelahjananrasheed #didierwilliam #representationmatters #visibilitymatters

[lindadubingarfield]

Working on a new series called Black White Brown or White Black Brown or Brown White Black or Brown Black White or White Brown Black or Black Brown White inspired by #didierwilliam series “Perejil “ and the politics of today. #worksonpaper #printmaking #art #mixedmedia #olivebranch (at Main Line Art Center)