• you and I, breathe together

    ink on paper
    22" x 30"  |  2025

  • you and I, caught one another

    ink on paper
    23" x 17.5"  |  2025

  • you and I, were brought together

    ink on paper
    16" x 12"  |  2025

  • the space around, gathered dust

    pencil on paper
    22" x 30"  |  2024

  • the space around, drummed pencil

    pencil on paper
    9" x 12"  |  2024

  • the space around, dropped beads

    pencil on paper
    22" x 30"  |  2024

  • the space around, scattered dirt

    22" x 30"  |  2024

  • a part of separate

    ink on paper
    38.5" x 25"  |  2023

  • As I hold my breath

    ink on paper
    30" x 44"  |  2023

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Chattanooga, TN | Painting, Mixed Media, Drawing
Bio:

Williams’s abstract spaces are an ode to an imperfect language. Through motion, she makes marks that translate thought - subconscious – a viscerally understood language.

Williams works from her hometown of Chattanooga, Tennessee. In 2009, she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Next, Williams received a full scholarship to complete her Master's in Printmaking in 2012 at SCAD-Atlanta.

Williams worked at SCAD‘s Southeastern Center for Printmaking. There, she worked on an ambitious print collection with Kiki Smith and Valerie Hammond. Initially working as an assistant printer, Williams was indispensable to the project and was promoted to assistant project manager.

On the heels of this project, Williams founded, managed, and co-owned Straw Hat Press, which specialized in fine art publishing and contract printing. As Straw Hat flourished, Williams realized that despite her success in printmaking, she would always be devoted to her love of drawing. Subsequently, she left Atlanta and returned to her hometown to pursue her career as a gallery artist, where her career soared.

In 2023 she was selected to be the inaugural artist with a solo exhibition at the Good Art Co. in Greenville, South Carolina. Additionally, she participated in Carrie Able’s Artist in Residence program last August, which concluded with a solo show, Unveiled at Carrie Able Gallery in Brooklyn in April of 2024. In the final months of 2024, she exhibited with Kai Lin in Atlanta, Georgia, and at Warnes Contemporary in Brooklyn. In 2025, she will be participating in Chateau d'Orquevaux’s residency program in France and Stove Works Artist Residency in Tennessee.

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Statement:

My work explores the fragile spaces between things — light, shadows, memory, and trauma — capturing the subtle gestures of the world that often go unnoticed. Through intuitive mark-making and layering, I trace the invisible patterns of nature and the self, reflecting on the delicate tension between chaos and order, loss and recovery. Born from my own experiences of memory loss and trauma, my practice uses materials like graphite, ink, and transparent surfaces to map the passage of time, the fading of memories, and the scars that shape us. My art is a process of reclaiming lost fragments of self and an invitation for others to find connection through shared vulnerability, exploring the beauty and meaning found in the spaces between what we remember and what we forget.

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