Black, Like Paul

Black, Like Paul by Alex Christopher Williams, 2021 *final copies Alex Christopher Williams explores the relationship between historical, contemporary and personal experiences around issues of race, passing, and masculinity in America. He focuses on male archetypes using folklore, legends, and icons as references to draw similarities between the past and present. As a white passing mixed race man, Williams' photographic practice centers on the liminal space between race/ethnicity and identity using a more documentary style while also attempting to actively subvert common tropes and traditions of the practice. Alex Christopher Williams (b.1989, Ohio) is an artist and curator raised in the American South and currently living in Atlanta, Georgia. He received his MFA in Photography from University of Hartford and his BFA from Savannah College of Art and Design, and has been exhibited globally, including Ogden Museum of Southern Art, C/O Berlin, Wish Gallery, MINT, and The Safe House Black History Museum; amongst others . Williams is the director and curator at Minor League Project Space and works as a professor at Kennesaw State University. His work is held in the collections of the High Museum, The Do Good Fund, and Savannah College of Art and Design. Design by Caleb Cain Marcus | Luminosity Lab 7 x 9.5” vertical, softcover 88 pages First Edition, limited to 350 copies OPTION I - Book Only OPTION II - Book with Print 01, 8 x 10” pigment print, signed, limited to 10 copies - SOLD OUT OPTION III - Book with Print 02, 8 x 10” pigment print, signed, limited to 10 copies - SOLD OUT OPTION III - Book with Print 03, 8 x 10” pigment print, signed, limited to 10 copies - SOLD OUT OPTION IV - Book with all prints, signed - SOLD OUT COLLECTIONS Amon Carter Museum of Art Arcadia University British Library Cincinnati Art Museum Getty Center Griffin Museum Gustavus Adolphus College Haverford College Hampshire College Harvard University Metropolitan Museum of Art Morris Museum of Art Museum of Modern Art National Museum of African American History and Culture Pratt Institute Savannah College of Art and Design Schomburg Center / New York Public Library Silver Eye Center for Photography University of Colorado Boulder