FORREST WILLIAMS is a figurative painter building upon a rich history of artists who work from life. His paintings develop and grow out of daily work with the model in the studio. While his work is representational, he has long thought of it as fundamentally an exploration of an interior territory. The Provincetown Independent has said that his "male figures, nude and clothed, are like psychological journeymen, anonymous ciphers about no one and everyone." Williams has previously shown his work in San Francisco (Marx & Zavattero), Portland (Elizabeth Leach), and Provincetown (AMP), as well as in numerous group shows in New York and Montreal. A native North Carolinian, he was an English major at Davidson College before receiving his MFA in painting at the New York Academy of Art. He has also lived and studied in both Edinburgh and London. He now lives and works in New York and Provincetown, where he has taught for six summers at the Fine Arts Work Center.