Michael Kelly

Williams

(b. 1950)

Carnival of the Spirits

1984

monotype on paper

22-1/4 x 34-3/4

signed, dated, titled, with monotype written in pencil

Selected Exhibitions

Synergistics, Global Vision Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, 2025

Music: The Work of Michael Kelly Williams, The Palmer Gallery at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, 2025

Michael Kelly Williams: Crossings, Wilmer Jennings Gallery at Kenkeleba, New York, New York, 2024

Michael Kelly Williams: A Retrospective, Five Myles Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, 2022

Robert Blackburn & Modern American Printmaking, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES), various cities, 2020-2022

Impressions: My Life in Ink, EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop 20|20 Gallery, New York, New York, 2018

Hand-Pull: the Art of Printmaking, Arts Horizons LeRoy Neiman Art Center, New York, New York, 2013-2014

Lasting Impressions of Robert Blackburn’s Printmaking Workshop, Arts Extended Gallery, Detroit, Michigan, 2013

20th-Century African American Art from the George and Joyce Wein Collection: Syncopated Rhythms, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, 2005-2006

25 years of African-American Art organized by the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, New York, 1994-1997

Walter O. Evans Collection of African American Art, Beach Institute, King-Tisdell Museum, Savannah, Georgia, 1991

Myth and Music, June Kelly Gallery, New York, New York, 1988

Michael Kelly Williams, Bronx Museum Satellite Gallery, New York, New York, 1985

Juss Jazz, Kenkeleba House, New York, New York, 1983

Pittsburgh Print Group 79, The Arts and Crafts Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1979

Michael Kelly Williams, Paul Robeson Gallery, Detroit, Michigan, 1978

Two Voices

1977

woodblock print

18 x 21 inches (image)

24 x 25 inches (sheet)

signed, dated, titled, and dedicated to William Carter

numbered 27/40