Artist Statement
My practice involves working with forces and systems to create generative artworks that develop over time. In the landscape or in a gallery, my projects explore the ecologies of living and non living systems to reveal their animating forces and material agency. In each of my artworks, I am interested in creating for viewers an expansive and shifting scale of experience, one that can move them between the microcosmic space in which a material transformation is happening, to the macrocosmic environment in which both the participant and the artwork exist. In this way, the works represents a performative experiment, a collaboration with forces outside of my control to explore the mysterious phenomena that animate our universe and our delicate relationship to these interconnected processes.
Bio
William Lamson is an interdisciplinary artist whose diverse practice involves working with elemental forces to create durational performative actions. Set in landscapes as varied as New York’s East River and Chile’s Atacama Desert, his projects reveal the invisible systems and forces at play within these sites. Lamson’s work has been exhibited widely in the United States and Europe, including the Brooklyn Museum, The Moscow Biennial, P.S.1. MOMA, and he has produced site specific installations for the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Center For Land Use Interpretation, Storm King Art Center. He has been awarded grants from the Shifting Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and is a 2023 Joan Mitchell Fellow. He earned his MFA from Bard College, and he teaches in the Parsons MFA photography program in New York City.
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To contact me regarding any of the above, please email me at: williamlamson(at)gmail.com
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Images of my work should not be published without expressed written permission from me. To license an image, please email me.
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Artist Statement
My practice involves working with forces and systems to create generative artworks that develop over time. In the landscape or in a gallery, my projects explore the ecologies of living and non living systems to reveal their animating forces and material agency. In each of my artworks, I am interested in creating for viewers an expansive and shifting scale of experience, one that can move them between the microcosmic space in which a material transformation is happening, to the macrocosmic environment in which both the participant and the artwork exist. In this way, the works represents a performative experiment, a collaboration with forces outside of my control to explore the mysterious phenomena that animate our universe and our delicate relationship to these interconnected processes.
Bio
William Lamson is an interdisciplinary artist whose diverse practice involves working with elemental forces to create durational performative actions. Set in landscapes as varied as New York’s East River and Chile’s Atacama Desert, his projects reveal the invisible systems and forces at play within these sites. Lamson’s work has been exhibited widely in the United States and Europe, including the Brooklyn Museum, The Moscow Biennial, P.S.1. MOMA, and he has produced site specific installations for the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Center For Land Use Interpretation, Storm King Art Center. He has been awarded grants from the Shifting Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and is a 2023 Joan Mitchell Fellow. He earned his MFA from Bard College, and he teaches in the Parsons MFA photography program in New York City.
Commissions / Art Sales / Exibitions
To contact me regarding any of the above, please email me at: williamlamson(at)gmail.com
Image License
Images of my work should not be published without expressed written permission from me. To license an image, please email me.
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