CITY BLOCK, 2017
Historic Reynolds Avenue Fire Station
North Charleston, South Carolina
About the Work
This body of work draws from the distinctive visual language of the local urban landscape—storefronts, security grates, church facades, hand-painted signage, spaces where commerce, culture, and faith intersect. It reflects the city’s daily pulse. Each piece isolates a specific element of the environment. Together, they operate like interconnected fragments—signs, structures, and symbols sourced from the same context but recomposed in inventive ways. Williams’s reverence for the urban landscape permeates the work, grounded in familiarity and proximity—an ongoing relationship with these spaces and the people who build and maintain them. The symbols and materials that recur throughout the work—crosses, palmetto roses, sweet grass, and picket fence embellish the sculpture and establish them as devotional objects in their own right.
Support & Funding
This exhibition is made possible by support from the North Charleston Cultural Arts Department and the City of North Charleston Arts Festival, an annual five day event highlighting regional and local artists and performers in the areas of Dance, Music, Theatre, Visual Arts, and Literature.
Exhibition Review
”A Tale of Two Charlestons”
By Chase Quinn for BOMB Magazine
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City Block To Museum
In 2023, the International African Museum, in Charleston, S.C. acquired In Praise of a Sto’ Front Church, for its permanent collection and currently displays Williams’s artwork in the Gullah Geechee Gallery of the museum.
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Original Clarinet Composition
Williams’s former classmate at Charleston County School of the Arts, Philip Lipton, who is presently Principal Clarinetist of the North Charleston POPS! Orchestra—created Outward Spiral, a 10:45 clarinet composition incorporating circular breathing and layered through a looping pedal, as the accompanying piece for Dream Catcher.