Will Day

William Day (b.1971, USA)

William Day is an American painter known for his large-scale compositions of colorful shapes and energetic marks. Now living in Boulder, Colorado, Day can often be found in his studio working on multiple pieces at the same time. His process leads him to create paintings in series, each focusing on different nuances of the human experience. His works are comprised of textures and complex layers demonstrating his interaction with a canvas in a moment. These series of paintings all nod to certain periods of Day’s life that bring years of intensity, joy, spirituality, conflict and resolution to the canvas.

Day begins each new work by rolling unprimed raw canvas out on the floor. Primarily working with oil and acrylics, he creates textures and layers with various tools, discovering relationships between the colors and the unexpected structures. His paintings, which tower above their viewers, are monoliths of creative freedom projecting to the world Day’s belief in the sublime powers of color and form. Inspired by hope and beauty, burgeoned by his own personal struggles, Day is an artist whose eyes are fixed firmly on the horizon. After September 11th 2001, when Day’s wife Aimee, survived the collapse of the World Trade Towers, Day left a career in finance and studied architecture at PRATT Institute, which ultimately lead him to becoming a painter.

His architectural impulsivity carried over into his style of painting with expressive actions of manipulating his implements, often those associated with construction. Day’s work has been published in LUXE Magazine, FORBES.com, WHITEHOT Magazine, STIR WORLD Magazine, TAINTED Magazine, 5280 Magazine and has been a TEDx Speaker. His art is featured in both private and public collections throughout the United States, Europe and North Africa. He exhibits at galleries in Boulder, CO, Los Angeles, CA and New York City.