About

William Gary is a visual artist and musician based in New York. William has been painting full-time since High School, was a YoungArts Winner, and in the past few years has had several shows in the Hudson Valley and NYC. These have included group shows and one-man shows. Most notably, in April of 2018, William was a part of a group show at MoMA PS1 in New York City. His work has also appeared in the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, CT where he won second place in a competition known as ICreate. William graduated from Bard College in May of 2022 with a BA in studio arts, he was named a Jane Fromm Yacenda Scholar in the Arts in addition to receiving The Christina R. Tarsell Studio Arts Award. His final thesis exhibition Evocation consisted of a year-long process that accumulated into an exhibition comprising twenty-four large-scale paintings, as well as several prints and sculptures.

Starting with the stark, shocked paintings of William Gary, this dreamscape becomes panicked with anguished brushwork. The panic-stricken mark-making sets off alarms startling in their explosive energy. Gary’s fractured, painted planes are ultimately seized in an instant of emergency – and emergence – in a world at once commanding and terrifying. -Steve Rockwell