Jeff Williams
February 11, 2025

Pictured: Bruised Buildings, 2024
10 x 10 x 40 feet
Pigmented cast latex rubber, hand cast aluminum hangers, shaped aluminum pipe, steel hardware, and LED fixtures.
An installation view of nine garments created from an architectural rubber cast of a defunct rice silo in Houston, TX. Using the rubber as fabric, I tailored patterns in a variety of styles, from fur-collared coats to sleeveless denim. Installation view of "Bruised Buildings" at Co-LabProjects in Austin, TX. This is the first iteration of my proposed project.

1. On the Prowl, Paris
   
2. Raise the Bells, The Folk Implosion
   
3. Trance #2, Angus LacLise, Tony Conrad, John Cale
   
4. We Will Fall, The Stooges
   
5. Dopesmoker, Sleep
   
6. Big Church [megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitekért], Sun O)))
   
7. The Fare to Get There, Do Make Say Think
   
8. The Dance No. 1, Laraaji, Brian Eno
   
9. RF5, Ben Vida
   
10. Dazed and Awake, Aerial M
    

Jeff Williams lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, and Austin, TX, where he is an Associate Professor Of Sculpture at The University of Texas.  He has been awarded residencies at the Dora Maar House in Ménerbes, France; Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, CA; Recess in New York, NY; Galería Perdida in Chilchota, Michoacán, Mexico; and the Core Program in Houston, TX. Williams was the 2009 Leonore Annenberg Fellow in the Arts at the American Academy in Rome. He is a recent recipient of an NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship for Environmental Structures and a Santo Foundation Award. Solo exhibitions include Jack Hanley Gallery in New York, NY; Co-Lab Projects in Austin, TX; RAIR in Philadelphia, PA; 1708 Gallery in Richmond, VA; Arthouse in Austin, TX; and Artpace in San Antonio, TX.