From June 4 to July 1, William Greider will show his woodcarvings at Langdon Divers Community Gallery, located at the Fond du Lac Public Library.

Greider is an American artist currently living in Oshkosh.  He has been a practicing artist and educator for over 35 years since graduating from the University of Arizona (1988) and the University of Wisconsin Parkside (1984).

His work has been shown, in both group and solo exhibitions throughout the United States and Puerto Rico, and he is in many public and private collections, including the University of Arizona, UW-Parkside, the University of Colorado, the Wustum Museum in Racine, the Miller Art Museum/Sturgeon Bay, and the Purdue Print Collection.  

Greider’s work takes on several divergent characteristics since he creates artworks through 3 different pseudonyms, each with their own distinct styles, media and themes. 

Most of his work is created under his pseudonym, “Huey”, an artist who is bold, using relief printmaking or watercolor or acrylic paintings characterized with bright colors, swirling animated rockets and utilizing literary or popular culture themes where the two rockets (male & female) interact with the theme. Huey’s Art swirls with energy and chaos.

The other two styles include found or recycled materials with environmental themes in collographs and sculptural forms created by Weatherby Ornutt, and Romeo Garbonzo, who focuses on black velvet, crayon drawing with glitter and puppet forms with simple iconic themes of pop culture, religion and homages to the dodo bird.

William also creates under his own name which include the most recent woodcut portrait series. The focus is on direct interpretations of the original drawings to the cut- out energy of the woodcut gouges, value balance and mark making process indicative of woodcuts.

The Langdon Divers Community Gallery is open seven days a week, whenever the Fond du Lac Public Library is open at 32 Sheboygan St. The gallery may be found off the atrium at the south entrance to the Main Library.

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Volunteer curator Mel Kolstad may be contacted at mel@kolstad.net