James Brendan Williams

My art begins with close observation of the environment—and noticing patterns so commonplace as to disappear, their inherent strangeness often going unrecognized. In works like As If By Wizardry and Summer of Air Guitar I attempt to amplify and reveal these visual absurdities by creating coverings that suggest their own artificiality. Assembled from crude, and sometimes found, materials like buckets, flagging tape, and house plants, my installation and constructed works vacillate between familiar and foreign, presenting surrogates of forms that surround us everyday; and disrupt normal patterns of seeing by pointing out the strange visuals we take for granted.