posted on 2021-03-28, 14:16authored byAlex Williamson
This collection is a body of illustrations comprising American editorial commissions since 2014, specialising in contemporary socio-political issues, and Williamson’s 2019 solo exhibition, Untitled/Re-assembled, highlighting his collage based methodology. Through reappropriation and assemblage, using digital and analogue print and collage techniques, Williamson explores the intersections between multiple graphic elements.
This item contains selected published editorial illustration commissions for publications in the USA and UK.
Publications in order of appearance. Courtesy of the artist, who has permission for reuse. Links to the original articles below in the references field, where available.
1. Sight and Sound, October 2016, Vol. 26, Issue 10
2. Sight and Sound, June 2018, Vol. 28, Issue 6
3. Southern Poverty Law Center, Teaching Tolerance, Don’t Say Nothing (2016)
4. Southern Poverty Law Center, Intelligence Report, Spring 2016, Issue 160
5. New Republic, ‘Shock Corridor’ (Ice Detentions), August 2019 6. O Magazine, ‘Caste by Isabel Wilkerson’, August 2020
7. The New Yorker, ‘What is a Woman?’, August 2014 8. New Statesman, ‘What Trump Wants Now’, November 2020 9. The Exeter Bulletin, ‘The Sixties’, Winter 2018
10. The Economist, American Prisons: The right choices, June 2015 11. The Wall Street Journal, 2017
12. The Hollywood Reporter, ‘Hollywood's Stealth Support of the D.C. Gun-Control March’, March 2018 13. O Magazine, Caste review, August 2020 14. The New Republic, Impact of US Climate Change article, 2018
15. The New Republic, Mueller Report article, 2018
16. Rolling Stone, Baltimore Police Corruption article, 2015 17. Southern Poverty Law Center, ‘One Year Later: Leaders from “Unite the Right” Fall From Grace’, 2018 18. The New Yorker, 2014 artwork design detail
Publication
The illustrations have been published in widely circulated magazines and journals, including on the front cover. More recently they have been commissioned for the popular title O. Magazine to illustrate Caste by Isabel Wilkerson (Random House 2020) and in British titles such as the New Statesman.
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