02/26/2024
✨Our Artist Spotlight of the week features Chase Williamson!
Chase Williamson, a visual artist based in Knoxville, Tennessee, explores the profound connection between Black women, the Southern Black Garden, and water imagery. Through oil, acrylic, and familial fabric, she creates revitalized perspectives on historical southern regions charged with painful remembrance. By situating Black femmes amidst vivid florals and racialized landscapes, Williamson exposes life not predetermined by framed social perspectives, aiming to reclaim land and water as cultural spaces.
A painter and MFA candidate at the University of Tennessee, Williamson draws inspiration from her southern upbringing in Middle Tennessee. Her research-based approach explores identity and historical landscapes. Williamson’s art has been showcased in institutions like the Museum of Science and Industry, the Frist Art Museum, cë Gallery, and Ewing Gallery. Williamson was also a Curatorial Fellow at the Frist Art Museum, an artist-in-residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and has had work published in Burnaway magazine.
✨Please go check out more of her amazing works !✨
