Amanda Williams, A Supplementary Biography

POST BY PADDY JOHNSON

Amanda Williams, Image via: Poptower.

ART WORLD CRED

What do restaurant owners want to hang on their walls? Probably Amanda Williams‘ decorative paintings and photographs. Her installations are better but not by much; it’s still the uber cliché identity politics art, just not the type you can pin over your couch.

Still, Williams has shown at countless galleries and museums across the country. Sara Tecchia Roma, Studio Museum in Harlem, YBCA in San Francisco and DePaul University's Art Museum in Chicago. This doesn't fix the work, but she's at least been at it for a while.

Amanda Williams, There is a Past Tense, 2006

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
An impressive resume that doesn’t match the quality of her art.

CHARACTER ASSESSMENT
A slightly out of touch with the art world Adjunct Professor of Architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology who believes her work communicates more than it does.

TYPECAST
The Professor