Artist, Object, Installation, Meaning: Randy Williams

Sept. 13 – Oct. 16, 2002 

Project Room Installation Series 

Organized by: Samek Art Gallery
Series Curator: Dan Mills
A post-installation series catalogue will be published.

For this series, three artists have been invited to create site-specific installations in the Project Room during the 2002-2003 exhibition season. Elizabeth Newman, Buzz Spector and Randy Williams share a love of objects, of things as physical items and as objects imbued with meaning. However, each alters these objects through juxtaposition, deconstruction and manipulation in divergent ways. Bucknell University students will participate in the installation process.

Randy Williams' installations are concerned with many topics, including family, memory, books and the art-making process. Items including wood, toys, furniture, books and magazines, paintings, and tools are often incorporated into his environments. From his perspective as an African-American artist raised in both the urban north and rural south, Williams addresses an ever expanding scope of social issues in his work.