Fueled by coffee, tobacco and burritos, Scott Williams spray painted his way into becoming an institution in street painting.
Stencil artist Scott Williams at his home and studio at 20th and Shotwell streets in 2012. Photo courtesy of Anthony Kurtz.
Williams was one of the first artists to paint a mural in Clarion Alley after Noble and other artists started the project in 1991, Noble said. The two cultivated a friendship that lasted through the ‘90s before Noble moved to Los Angeles in 2000.“His work was everywhere, literally out on the street and indoors and outdoors, on cars driving by. You couldn’t avoid it,” said Noble. “He was a stencil artist. He wasScott William’s piece inside of The Lab on Friday June 7, 2024. Photo by Oscar Palma.
Williams was born in Los Angeles and grew up in Santa Barbara. He arrived in San Francisco in 1979 and started doing stencil work shortly afterward. He received the 2005 Adeline Kent Award, which recognizes promising artists in the state, and his work has been featured at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the San Francisco Art Institute.
“You watch television and things are changing irrationally from one point to the other, from 500 dead in China to a dog food commercial,” he said in. “That’s a dominant feature of our culture, these images are hitting us one after another and not in a particularly sensible order. Maybe if you stood back far enough from it there would be a point where it would make sense.”
Noble recalled his “amazing library of imagery” that Williams called “stored energy.” “It was this surrealist mashup with pop cultural images from all different eras and different mediums all mashed together in a timeless, flickering, vibrating, interdimensional collage.” William’s death came as a surprise to his sister Lissa Williams, who spoke to her brother a couple of weeks before he died. She recalled her brother as “very entertaining and very good at telling me stories,” and said he had been feeling better and ready to go home.
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