LORRAINE WILLIAMS was born in Queens, New York, in 1964. Beginning making art at an early age, Ms. Williams attended the High School of Art & Design (1980) and the School of Visual Arts (1984), both in New York City. She worked for thirteen years as a commercial art director, illustrator, and graphic designer before turning her attention full-time to painting. Having recently added printmaking to her creative endeavors, her prints are represented by Van Deb Editions in New York. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

EDUCATION:

1984    BFA, School of Visual Arts, NYC

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2005    More Esoteric Ideas about Time, Space & Order, Tobey Fine Arts, NYC
2003    Liminal Spaces, Tobey Fine Arts, NYC
2000    The Plight of the Individual in Modern Society, Tobey Fine Arts, NYC
1999    soul suckin jerk...and others, Tobey Fine Arts, NYC

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2007    VERUS PAINTERS, Tobey Fine Arts, NYC
            New Advances in Abstract Painting, Tobey Fine Arts, NYC
2006    Progressive Painters, Tobey Fine Arts, NYC
2005    Dreams in the Abstract: Paintings 1933 – 2005, Tobey Fine Arts, NYC
           Phallus… Vagina… Tomb…, Tobey Fine Arts, NYC
2004    New Works by Cris Gianakos, Pamela Lawton & Lorraine Williams, VanDeb Editions,
    NYC AAF Contemporary Art Fair, Pier 92, NYC
           Pure Painting II, Tobey Fine Arts, NYC
           Of Clear Line & Depth: Print Works, Tobey Fine Arts, NYC
2003    AAF Contemporary Art Fair, Pier 92, NYC
           Abstraktion: 100 Years Later, Pt. II, Tobey Fine Arts, NYC
           Abstraktion: 100 Years Later - Moscow, Union of Moscow Artists, Moscow, RUSSIA
2002    Abstraktion: 100 Years Later, Tobey Fine Arts, NYC
           Pure Painting, Tobey Fine Arts, NYC
           Summer Slam 2002 International, Tobey Fine Arts, NYC
           5th Anniversary, Tobey Fine Arts, NYC
2001    LOVE - Summer Slam 3, Tobey Fine Arts, NYC   
2000    Summer Slam Grand Nationals, Tobey Fine Arts, NYC
1999    Erin Parish & Lorraine Williams, Tobey Fine Arts, NYC
           Fantastic, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
           Summer Slam 99, Tobey Fine Arts, NYC
1998    17th Annual Metro Show, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
           A Painting Show, Roebling Hall, Brooklyn, NY

COLLECTION:

Zimmerli Art Museum's Rutgers Archives for Printmaking Studios