William Rand

William Rand: born in 1953, he grew up on the Maine Coast, studying at the Portland School of Art: BFA 1978, in human anatomy and drawing the figure. In 1989, catalog essay “Les Lecons des Tenebres” by Rene Ricard is published for the William Rand exhibit at 56 Bleecker Ltd. New York. In 1990, he illustrated a set of five large poem prints by Taylor Mead. (The Farnsworth Museum, and The New York Public Library Print Collection). In 1996 he moved his studio to Madrid from New York. In 2003, catalog essay “William Rand’s Ava Gardner” by Richard Milazzo is published in Madrid for the Rand exhibition, “Ava Gardner: Sacred and Profane.” In 2005 he moved to Alicante Spain, opened a studio on the Mediterranean and traveled often to Morocco and Istanbul. In 2015 he moved back to the United States and opened a studio in South Freeport, Maine.