About

William Gary (b. 1999, New York) is a visual artist and musician currently pursuing an MFA at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. William was a YoungArts Winner, and in April of 2018, he 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