Franklin Williams' recent drawings are intense and fluid representations and amalgamations of his various travels in Bulgaria, China , Greece, Morocco, Romania, Russia, Tibet and Turkey. Williams combines hallucinatory and decorative elements into jeweled watercolor backgrounds; obsessive mark-making symbolizes a world that has grown strange and fractured with memory.

Fashionable women, holy men, ancient urns, cell phones, high-heels, ceremonial masks, and saucer-eyed golems are among a vast array of subjects, both remembered and imagined, that morph and merge in Franklin Williams' psychedelic travelogues.

Over the last four decades, Franklin Williams has established himself as one of the most prominent and influential artists working in the Bay Area. In the realm of art, Williams wears many hats-artist, poet, teacher, performer, and lecturer. As a result, his career has, and continues to, encompass a broad achievement.

An award-winning artist, Franklin Williams is a recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ford Foundation grants, and for the three consecutive years, he has been invited to attend the Conference of World Affairs at the University of Colorado and held an exhibition in conjunction with it. Since the 1960s he has taught at the San Francisco Art Institute and the California College of Arts and Crafts, where he earned both his MFA and BFA. Williams has also taught at Gwent College of Higher Education, Newport, Wales, and the Ruskin School of Drawing and Painting, Oxford, England, and was a visiting artist at the Santa Fe Art Institute in 1999. As a frequent lecturer, hes visited galleries, museums, studios and art schools in the U.K. and nationwide including the Chicago Art Institute, New York Studio School, New York University, Corcoran School of Art, the Whitney School of Art, and others.

Williams has had a multitude of solo exhibitions both here and abroad such as the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art; Utah Museum of Fine Arts; San Jose Museum of Art; Gallery K, Washington D.C; Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco and Gallery B, Paris, France, among many others. The long list of curated group exhibitions that he has been involved with includes: University of Colorado; pFORMative Acts, Walter McBean Gallery, San Francisco; National Museum, Washington D.C; Center of Fine Arts, Miami, Florida; New Zealand Museum, Auckland, New Zealand; Oakland Museum; Galleria Odyssia, New York; 1968 Annual, Whitney Museum, New York; Portland Art Museum; Seattle Art Museum, just to name a few. His personal bibliography embraces broad accomplishments that include Artful Duets performance with David Chamberlain at Colorado Universitys Conference on World Affairs, a radio interview and poetry reading on Utah Public Radio, and The Art of Franklin Williams for Video Art Television. In 1997, "Soft As Cotton, Centered and Hard: Painting and Poetry Franklin Williams" was published by Sto᠇allery and Publishing. He has also been included in numerous publications: The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery; The Painting and Sculpture Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980 (Thomas Albright); Collage and Assemblage (Crown Publishers),etc.