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How Human of You by Kent Williams

Los Angeles artist Kent Williams has built up a formidable reputation as a powerful contemporary painter. His style is a bold realism with combined attributes of abstraction and neo-expressionistic sensibilities. His work is characterised by strong gestural forms combined with areas of arresting detail, rendered with rich dynamic brushwork.

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Via Creative Boom submission. All images courtesy of the artist and gallery

Via Creative Boom submission. All images courtesy of the artist and gallery

Williams’ approach to his subjects is often subjective and intense. Whether through multi-figured compositional complexity and suggestive narrative or with the straight-forward lone human form, there is often autobiographical narrative at play. Favourite models, friends, and the artist himself all play a role in the human story of his paintings.

Currently exhibiting his first solo show at 101/EXHIBIT in West Hollywood, this latest body of work is entitled How Human of You.

Young figure draped in patterned fabric against a turquoise background, rendered in Kent Williams' characteristic gestural realism with bold brushwork
A shirtless youth with raised arms holds white fabric above his head, surrounded by gestural brushstrokes and abstract coloured passages of paint in muted and vibrant tones
Two figures painted with bold brushwork and expressive abstraction, lying among gestural paint marks and areas of detailed rendering in Kent Williams' characteristically dynamic style
Seated nude figure with hand raised to head against an abstract background of blue, green and ochre brushstrokes by Kent Williams
Three shirtless male figures recline together in an abstracted outdoor setting painted with expressive brushwork and muted tones of green, yellow and blue
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