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Griff Williams. He is the son of John Patrick Williams

John Patrick Williams

John Patrick "Pat" Williams is a former Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Montana during the years 1979–1997....

(b. October 30, 1937, Helena, Montana) a former Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Montana during the years 1979–1997.

Griff Williams is a San Francisco based fine artist whose paintings have been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide, including San Diego Museum of Art, Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, New Langton Arts, Andrea Schwartz Gallery and Stephen Wirtz Gallery. His work has been reviewed in Art in America, Flash Art and Artnet.com.

He received his BFA from the University of Montana in 1988 and MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1993. He is an instructor at the San Francisco Art Institute

San Francisco Art Institute

San Francisco Art Institute is a school of higher education in contemporary art with the main campus in the Russian Hill district of San Francisco, California. Its graduate center is in the Dogpatch neighborhood. The private, non-profit institution is accredited by WASC and is a member of the...

and the owner of Gallery 16, San Francisco. Since 1993, Gallery 16 has exhibited the work of scores of influential contemporary artists including Margaret Kilgallen, Arturo Herrera, Michelle Grabner, Mark Grotjahn, et al. The Gallery 16 Editions publishing program has used contemporary printmaking

Printmaking

Printmaking is the process of making artworks by printing, normally on paper. Printmaking normally covers only the process of creating prints with an element of originality, rather than just being a photographic reproduction of a painting. Except in the case of monotyping, the process is capable...

methods to create, portfolios and artist books for scores of notable contemporary artists such as Rex Ray

Rex Ray

Rex Ray is an American fine artist and graphic designer based in San Francisco. His work has been exhibited at galleries and Museums throughout the US and Europe including Turner Carroll Gallery, Gallery 16, Crocker Museum, San Jose Museum of Art, MCA Denver...

, Lynn Hershman Leeson

Lynn Hershman Leeson

Lynn Hershman Leeson is an award-winning American artist and filmmaker. She was Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Davis, and an A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University...

, Deborah Oropallo and William Kentridge

William Kentridge

William Kentridge is a South African artist best known for his prints, drawings, and animated films. These are constructed by filming a drawing, making erasures and changes, and filming it again. He continues this process meticulously, giving each change to the drawing a quarter of a second to two...

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Williams has also designed and published acclaimed books with the Gallery 16 Editions imprint. Over the past decade he has produced books with Barry Gifford

Barry Gifford

Barry Gifford is an American author, poet, and screenwriter known for his distinctive mix of American landscapes and film noir- and Beat Generation-influenced literary madness....

"Las Quatro Reinas", Prince Andrew Romanoff"The Boy Who Would Be Tsar ISBN 0977744221, Harrell Fletcher "Jimmy F. Miles is a Boyfriend And A Girlfriend With Harrell Fletcher ISBN 097774423X, Bill Berkson

Bill Berkson

Bill Berkson is an American poet, critic, teacher and sometime curator, who has been active in the art and literary worlds since his early twenties.-Life:Born in New York on August 30, 1939, Bill Berkson grew up on Manhattan’s Upper...

, Colter Jacobsen

Colter Jacobsen

Colter Jacobsen is an American artist based in San Francisco. His work includes drawings, paintings and installations.-Life:Jacobsen was born in Ramona, California and had a Mormon upbringing there. He later moved to San Francisco and studied at the San Francisco Art Institute...

and "Good Times:Bad Trips" with artist Scott Hewicker and Cliff Hengst ISBN 9780977744244. "Good Times:Bad Trips" includes text by Devendra Banhart

Devendra Banhart

Devendra Obi Banhart is a singer-songwriter and visual artist. Banhart was born in Houston, Texas and was raised by his mother in Venezuela, until he moved to California as a teenager. He began to study at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1998, but dropped out to perform music in Europe, San...

, Vetiver and Drew Daniel

Drew Daniel

Drew Daniel may refer to:*Matmos band member Drew Daniel*Andrew Daniel, winner of the television series Big Brother...

of Matmos

Matmos

Matmos is an experimental electronic music duo originally from San Francisco but now residing in Baltimore signed to the Matador Records label. M. C. Schmidt and Drew Daniel are the core members, but they frequently include other artists on their records and in their performances, including...

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