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Education
BFA Southeastern Massachusetts University, Dartmouth, MA
(painting and printmaking)
Selected Exhibitions
2024 PVCC Printmaking Show: The Power of Plenty, Piedmont Virginia Community College, Charlottesville, VA
2023 Winter Show 2023, GreenHill Center for North Carolina Art, Greensboro, NC
Vessels, Solo Exhibition, ArtSpace, Richmond, VA
Five Points Printmaking Juried Exhibition, Five Points Art Center, Torrington, CT
2022. Vessels, Solo Exhibition, Smith Gallery, McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, VA
Extreme Pressure National Printmaking Exhibition, C F Webber Gallery, College of Central Florida, Purchase Award
2021 New Editions: A Printmaking Exhibition, Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, Indiana
Brand 49: Works on Paper, Brand Art Center, Glendale, CA
Seeing Through the Layers, Possum Art and Crafts Gallery, Criglersville, VA, Solo Exhibition
Homeward Bound 2021, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA
2020 Seeing Through the Layers, Staunton Art Center, Staunton, VA
2019 Seeing Through the Layers, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
2018 The Art of Manipulation, Sarratt Gallery - 3 Person Exhibit, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Riverview Artspace Invitational Print Show, Lynchburg, VA
31st Annual McNeese National Works on Paper exhibition, McNeese State University, St. Charles, LA (Juror: Benjamin
Hickey, Curator, Masur Museum of Art)
2017 2017 Wheaton Biennial: Printmaking Reimagined, Beard and Weil Galleries,
Wheaton College, Norton MA (Juror: Andrew Stein Raftery, Printmaker)
25th Parkside National Small Print Exhibition, Fine Arts Gallery, University of
Wisconsin-Parkside, (Juror: David Jones, Master Printmaker)
2016 Stand Out Prints 2016: Juried International Print Exhibition, Highpoint
Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN, Juror: Elizabeth Wyckoff, Curator
of Prints, Drawings and Photographs, St. Louis Art Museum.
Long Beach Island Foundation National Juried Competition "Works on
Paper", 2nd place, Juror: Carter E. Foster, Curator of Drawing, the Whitney
Museum of American Art.
2015 Winter Show 2015, Greenhill Center for North Carolina Art, Greensboro, NC
Art Biologic, Limner Gallery, Hudson, NY
In and Out of the Wild, Gallery West, Columbia, SC
2014 Hirsch Wellness Art Auction, Greensboro, NC
Gallery West, Columbia, SC (solo)
Wings and Water, River Arts Gallery, Prairie du Sac, WI (juror: Martha
Glowacki)
2013 Hirsch Wellness Art Auction, Greensboro, NC
2012 Jules Art and Antiques, Greensboro, NC (solo)
Sacred Space for the City, Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Greensboro, NC
(invitational)
Hirsch Wellness Art Auction, Greensboro, NC
2011 Hirsch Wellness Art Auction, Greensboro, NC
The Artery, Greensboro, NC (solo)
2010 Art and Artifacts, Blowing Rock, NC (invitational)
Sacred Space for the City, Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Greensboro, NC
(invitational)
2009 The December Show, Gallery 115, Greensboro, NC (invitational)
Art Lives Here, Gallery 115, Greensboro, NC
High Point Theatre Arts Gallery, High Point, NC
2008 North Carolina Crafts Gallery, Carrboro, NC (solo)
Wachovia Bank, Greensboro, NC (solo)
Flowers and Clouds, High Point Theatre Arts Gallery, High Point, NC
(two-person)
2007 The December Show, Gallery 115, Greensboro, NC (invitational)
2005 Drawings, Gallery 115, Greensboro, NC (invitational)
Ganache, Greensboro, NC (solo)
Ritz Design Gallery, Greensboro, NC (solo)
Basil's Restaurant, Greensboro, NC (solo)
2004 The Marshall Gallery, Greensboro, NC (juried)
The Marshall Gallery, Greensboro, NC (solo)
Bibliography
2010 Burt, Stephanie, "Westwood's Artists Colony Holds Open House," The News
and Record (Greensboro, NC), Go Triad (weekly), September 30, 2010:
14-16.
Selected Collections
Private collections across the country, including works in collections in Boston, California, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Virginia, as well as in Montreal.
Bio
Maryanna Williams is a contemporary printmaker who lives and works in Charlottesville, Virginia. The imagery for her reduction linoleum prints comes from her having spent time living and traveling in Italy. Immersing herself in nature and art history, her work speaks about simple forms and intricate patterns. Close up and filling the picture plane the subjects shift between realism and abstraction, at times dissolving into facets of color and marks vibration across surfaces. Color, pattern, surface, and energy of marks are what draw Williams to reduction printmaking. Using translucent inks, varying degrees of under-layers show through to the surface of the print creating nuanced variations in seemingly solid colors.
Originally from Boston, Massachusetts, Williams relocated to the Southeast – first to North Carolina and currently in Charlottesville, Virginia. She received her BFA in Printmaking and Painting from Southeastern Massachusetts University (now UMass Dartmouth). She has exhibited her work nationally, both in solo shows, juried exhibitions and invitational shows including The 31st McNeese National Works on Paper Exhibition (2018), The Art of Manipulation, Sarrat Gallery, Vanderbilt University (2018), Pattern/Recent Linocuts (solo show), Smith Gallery, Charlottesville, VA (2017), 3rd Annual Hand Pulled Prints, Site: Brooklyn, (2017), 2017 Wheaton Biennial: Printmaking Reimagined, Beard and Weil Galleries, Wheaton College (2017), 25th Parkside National Small Print Exhibition, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Wisconsin. In the Fall 2019 she will have a solo exhibit at The Columbia Museum of Art in Columbia, South Carolina. Her work is in private collections nationally and internationally.