🎨 Dreams/Memories
🖼️ A Selection of Artworks from Emerging Artist L.E. Williams
❤️ Sponsor
Patricia Tucker
🗓️ Key Dates & 🥂 Opening Reception
Exhibition Dates: September 5 – 26, 2025
Opening Reception: September 5, 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM
🎨 About the Exhibition
Lance Williams was born in Colorado Springs in 1986 and, except for a short time in Tucson, Arizona, has always called Colorado home. In 2009, while working toward a degree in graphic design at Colorado Mesa University, he fell in love with painting and the idea of complete creative freedom. After graduating with a graphic design degree in 2011, Williams has been intent on improving his artistic skill set, primarily with acrylic paint.
Williams states, “I think art is a practice of memory and dreaming. Most of us are just trying to convey a sense of our perspective. Imagining all my experiences could be shelved in a personal library, creating starts with a walk through and search for something that stands out. So often I can add to the library simply by spending time within it as old memories and new impressions mingle. A product of crossing the line between strictly observing and a deeper understanding, painting is an immeasurable visual language with which I aim to dictate these studies into something that can be appreciated.”
“The concepts filter in through the blackness of my imagination. Daydreams drift among each other, going as far as the current will take them. This is an unstoppable root of existence that grows with each day. When the conceptual filter is loosened, far reaching commonalities not usually within a breath of each other can be noted. You see concepts that normally clash composing unforeseen independence of the form. Now, you may begin to foster imagery that seems familiar, imagery that urges you to question its reality. But born from within you, it feels more real than the other side of the earth. As Salvador Dali stated, ‘One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.’”
“Sometimes this process flows at a snail’s pace, rewarding a patient sifter. Other times it is an unexpected flood that sets you on your heels and demands attention. Often, I embark on the creative journey with an end in mind, only to see it match my pace and continue ahead in the distance. This seems to be an unavoidable part of the process. The plasticity of imagination taunts the notion of completeness.”
“I find this pattern to be a mirror of daily life. Each pinnacle of achievement transforming into a plateau of ambition. We take our first steps, only to wish we could run faster. The excitement of your first car paled in comparison to a home you can call your own.”
“And so, the artwork becomes a likeness of these stages. A representation, of living in the moment and finding meaning in the chaos. But it is also a representation of what brought you there and a veiled anticipation of the steps ahead. Like a memory being pulled by a pioneering dream.”
Williams currently lives in Grand Junction with his wife Zondra and two dogs. He strives to carve out a part of Western Slope art history.