Sale 2518 - African-American Fine Art, October 8, 2019

Wayne State University for seventeen years. Curator Larry Ossei-Mensah has written how his work confronts issues and misconceptions on “race, representation, white supremacy and oppressive social structures, humanity and grace,” and with “narratives on social surrealism.” He has received numerous awards and grants, including a Ford fellowship, a McKnight Foundation fellowship, and grants from the Joan Mitchell Foundation and the Michigan Council for the Arts. Williams’ Jasper’s Last Breath , 2001 was exhibited in the Whitney Biennial in 2002, and acquired by the museum later that year. His work is also included in the collections of the Detroit Institute of Art, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and was included in Prospect New Orleans in 2017. [15,000/25,000]