CroixBorn and raised in the hills of Central Texas, Croix Williamson had been introduced to the art of music, painting and sculpture at a very young age. A family full of artists helped to nurture and inspire Croix’s creative side early on. In high school Croix found inspiration by way of heavy metal album covers, comics and graphic novels. He began to explore painting and abstraction while taking private lessons with the abstract modernist oil painter, Steve Alexander, who saw in him some potential. It wasn’t until undergrad at college of Santa Fe in New Mexico that Croix really began to explore the possibilities as an artist. There he majored in studio arts and found an affinity for working with steel. Croix’s focus shifted from painting to sculpture. He also discovered his historic art heroes. From Marcel Duchamp, Frank Stella, Lee Bontecou, Anish Kapoor, Antoni Gaudi, Albert Paley, and Tom Joyce (just to name a few), Croix found vision and purpose. During an additional 6 years living in Santa Fe, he found the opportunity to work for a number of incredible artists and fabricators, including Peter Joseph, Rico Eastman, Jeff Overlie, Dana Chodzko, Willard Wood, Steve Dulfer and Presley La Fountain. Croix showed his work in a few galleries including The CCA, Gerald Peters, Feral Art Tour and Barbara Bowels Fine Art. He spent summers working at the Shidoni Foundry. In 2007 Croix moved back to Austin Texas where he took a job working for Lars Stanley Architects and Artisans as a fabricator. In Austin Croix found that being away from the art overload that is Santa Fe he was able to develop his own more unique vision for his art. It was here that he began to really hone himself into the modernist sculptor and painter he was, as he pushes the possibilities of the material world. After working for Lars for a couple of years Croix teamed up with co-worker Ryan Scott Nairns and helped to build the custom fabrication business Metal Work Austin where Croix was a fabricator and finisher. In Austin, Croix had been a part of the East and West Austin Studio Tours, showing work at The Art for the People’s Gallery at Austin City Hall and at Big Ass Canvas. Originally from Austin, Texas Croix now calls Santa Fe, New Mexico his home. Inspired by the visual arts, books, music, film, technology, and the great reality within, Croix’s work has a phantasmagoric and highly crafted complexity offering a whimsical mysterious drama, both captivating and aesthetic. Spanning multiple disciplines from steel, cast iron and assemblage sculpture to painting, drawing and digital media, his explorations have led him on many adventures in composition. Back in Santa Fe, Croix is committed to continuously expanding his mind and its territory into the infinite realm of imagination, provided that he may offer the experience to others with his innate ability to express and portray it through his work. "As you view my art you will find that I work in a variety of media using various processes and techniques such as automatic drawing, architectural perspectives and abstractions, distorted and evolving patterns, dynamic and monochrome color palettes to create suggestive fictional narratives that are both open and grounding. I feel as if I am manifesting objects and images of places and spaces into existence that sometimes come across as childish memory or a vivid hallucination of some fantastic reality. At times it seems like an amalgamation of places and things that I have seen or experienced. Reality turned upside down, filtered, infused, reorganized through my imagination and reproduced on my own terms. My art is how I communicate with people to illustrate the depth of my experience and the wonderings of my mind. It is my truth. My hope is that when you view my work you allow your mind to wonder through and around each piece and find something familiar, something mysterious, something that stays with you.Thank you for your time, Croix"