William Weathers

Headshot of William Weathers

Between In-between

Thesis Statement

I am a painter creating surreal landscapes. Through each space I explore methods of archiving to find layered, indescribable memories and give them form through illusory representation. The paintings exist as the transient gap between any two ideas, an action and reaction, the time between the seen and the forgotten. Painting is a kind of problem solving that I use to engage ideas deeply rooted in the subconscious. To paint is to physically preserve time, yet the passage of time simultaneously affects the painting. That cycle drives me to weave these artificial subjects into alternative, abandoned surfaces creating a juxtaposition of ephemeral media with the traditional archive. The work is both abandoned and revitalized, abstract yet tangible, and through depth I create spaces that expose the change within memories. Whether digital or biological, memories are in a constant state of imperceptible change. Time selfishly flies and crawls through our lives, and in turn we are left to navigate our subconscious alone and transformed. What might be a physically felt memory could also be a vivid dream, and in turn what could be original data might be altered or corrupted. Through these memories I find, I take compositional moments and juxtapose them with a format that subverts the original space intensely through dense, formal disfigurations. Each process envelops many matrices of archive that function as a psychological cleft into the subconscious, deep memory.

Latency, Oil on Panel, 12"x 23", 2024

surreal painting of a hand in the foreground and woods in the background detail shot of a surreal painting of a hand

Paradigm Shift, Oil on Canvas Cradle, 12"x 48", 2024

Empty Promise, Oil on Canvas Panel, 12"x 18", 2024

3 paintings on separate doors with surreal interior space, 3D hand on right side of doors Painted yellow door in front of while wall with a painted 3D hand on the side.

Collective Phantasm, Oil on Hollow-Core Doors, 90"x 80", 2024

surreal painting of walls and light

Corrugation, Oil on Wood Panel, 47"x 10", 2024

Final Concatenation, Oil on Canvas Cradle, 11"x 30", 2024

Large painting of a surreal landscape, has large 2D ball surrounded by trees, wavy grass, and abstract clouds.

Morphogenesis, Oil on Panel, 36"x 36", 2024

Medium-sized painting of surreal yellow space with a blue hand and black arch, the back of the painting glows yellow.

Interposition, Oil on Masonite, 16"x 25", 2024

Small painting of a surreal, blue interior space with a large red tree and clouds in the middle of it. Small painting detail of a surreal, blue interior space with a large red tree and clouds in the middle of it, back of painting is neon pink and glows.

Silent Inundation, Oil on Masonite, 18"x 28", 2024

Small painting of a blue and red forest with two white spheres in it.

Epilogue, Oil on Canvas, 9"x 14", 2024

Occlusion, Oil on Wood Panel, 48"x 13", 2024

Large painting of a surreal landscape with classical elements, has multiple figures and objects painted in various styles.

Null Cipher, Oil on Canvas Cradle, 36"x 36", 2024

Large wall corner space with 14 separate paintings, all vary in size and alignment with the 3 largest paintings in the center. left wall of surreal paintings