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Todd Williamson

Glow Up

Glow Up

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Glow Up (2024) is a 40x36 oil on canvas built on a 3” grid that lets color and texture drift across the surface like memory. Soft earth tones meet punches of bright blue, coral, and gold—like moments of clarity rising through the noise. Glow Up is about quiet transformation—layers of history and emotion that surface when you least expect them. It doesn’t shout, but it absolutely speaks.

Artwork Details

Artist:
Todd Williamson
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Medium:
oil
Year Created:
2024
Dimensions:
40 × 30 × 3in
Style:
Glow Up is organized as a luminous grid of softened rectangles that read at once as structure and erosion. Todd Williamson builds the surface through veils of cream, taupe, gray, and warm earth, then interrupts that calm field with electric blue, coral, gold, and burnt sienna concentrated near the margins and lower field. The paint handling is layered and worked back, with scraped passages, rubbed edges, and thin luminous skins that place the work in conversation with postwar color abstraction, especially Rothko, Frankenthaler, and Clyfford Still, while the measured grid gives it a disciplined musical rhythm.
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oil,original,contemporary realism,painting,exclusive,gallery wrapped

About Todd Williamson

Todd Williamson, based in West Hollywood, CA, creates original artwork available to collect on Art Emerge, an AI-powered marketplace for artists and collectors.

Key Facts

  • Location: West Hollywood, CA

Todd Williamson is an internationally recognized contemporary artist known for his exploration of color, sound, and texture through abstraction. His work is defined by subtle gradients, rhythmic lines, and a refined palette that together create immersive, meditative experiences. Williamson’s paintings and installations often move between harmony and tension, pulling viewers into a deeper emotional and psychological space. Over the course of his career, Williamson has earned multiple honors, including two grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the Pollock-Krasner Prize for Creativity in 2019. His work has been exhibited around the world, with highlights including his critically acclaimed project Processional at the 58th Venice Biennale as an official collateral event.

Artist Statement

My work is rooted in a subtle, layered abstraction that feels both grounded and ethereal. Each painting is built up through a slow process of layering, sanding, scraping, and pulling back, letting the light emerge from within the surface itself. Some pieces lean into a restrained, almost monochromatic palette, while others open up into more complex fields of color and movement, always balancing chaos and control. I invite the viewer to slow down and reflect, looking beneath the surface, where the paintings carry a sense of internal narrative, a tension between fragility and resilience.

Selected Highlights

  • Pollock Prize for Creativity. Pollock Krasner Foundation * NY NY
  • 58th Venice Biennale- Processional (official exhibition) - Venice Italy
  • Foundation Grant. Pollock Krasner Foundation * NY NY
  • MoCA Montecatini Contemporary Art Museum - Montecatini Italy
  • MAC.n Museo Arte Contemporaneo - Monsummano Italy

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