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Artist Exhibitions:
P. Emerson Williams to Exhibit
at Dark Arts Festival
Gothic artist P. Emerson
Williams shall have recent
works on display at The Salt
Lake City Dark Arts Festival
as part of his unveiling of
several new directions in his
work. Known in the early
Nineties Goth revival as the
artist ...
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Artist Galleries:
Westgate GAllery
5219 Magazine Street,
New Orleans, LA. 70115, USA
Garp Gallery
21 West Church St.
Orlando, FL...
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Artist Reviews:
Mick Mercer:
The man who now makes
intensely artistic records,
with the
emphasis on intense, under the
unwieldy name of Choronzon
made these Veil Of Thorns
recordings back in the mid to
late
Nineties and in his
accompanying letter to me
states, “I finally
have the Veil Of Thorns
experience ...
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Collections:
Westgate Gallery Of
Necromantic Art, New Orleans,
Louisiana
Suzan Elizabeth Ramer, Private
Collector, Orlando, Florida
Andrea Jarrett, Private
collector, London, England
Miko Mattila, Private
Collector, Tampere, Finland
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Artist Statement for P. Emerson Williams
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The struggle to maintain a balance between perspective and alienation manifests in alternately transcendent and harrowing images. Which are which has been subject to some debate.
In school P. Emerson alternately frustrated and challenged his teachers. Having abilities and talents in many directions, he showed more interest in reading advanced college textbooks at the Bergen University library and haunting the local museums than completing their assignments. One teacher took interest in his artistic and musical abilities and entered a ceramic sculpture P. had created at the age of twelve in a juried show. When they accepted it and displayed it the jurors had no idea it was the work of a child.
Emboldened, P. Emerson began to participate in local student art organizations, showing frequently around Bergen and eventually having twenty pieces in a show that traveled throughout Norway, Scotland, Ireland and England. The work at this time displayed a surrealistic humor that since has developed into something less overt, darker and psychologically and spiritually challenging.
1984 he moved from Bergen, Norway back to Boothbay Harbor, Maine. After high school he worked at local theatres as a set designer and lighting director and spent two years as an apprentice to wildlife sculptor Frank Graham.
1987 he packed a few clothes, a sketch pad and pencils and a Miles Davis tape into a duffel bag and hitch hiked to Boston, having no place to live and only vague plans. P. Emerson's work was reflecting more and more his fascination with far eastern meditation techniques and universal archetypes. His very method of working incorporated automatic drawing an writing. Different media were exploited for their various textures and feel to inform the subconscious mind. Experiments were then used as a springboard, either torn and recombined as collages or as under painting for more complete images.
His work was in demand in magazines and record companies from England to Italy, Eastern Europe to South America as well as in the united States.
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