BIOGRAPHY b. 1971, NEW YORK CITY William Day is an American painter known for his abstract compositions featuring colorful shapes, energetic marks and movement, and intriguing surfaces. Originally from New York and 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. Exploring expression in a range of sizes, 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 monumental 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 he has been a TEDx Speaker. His art is featured in both private and public collections throughout the United States, Europe and North Africa and has been exhibited in galleries in New York, NY, Greenwich, CT, Boulder, CO, Miami, FL, Santa Barbara, CA, and Atlanta, GA. ARTIST STATEMENT My paintings transmute lived experience into visceral fields of raw color, urgent gesture, and layered form. I work on unprimed canvas laid across the studio floor, transforming each surface into a dynamic arena where oil, acrylic, and unconventional tools fuel an instinctive, full-body engagement. Textures accumulate, hues collide, and compositions emerge purely through the momentum of action. I move fluidly between multiple large canvases, letting each series become its own investigation of intensity, joy, conflict, resilience, and spiritual seeking. The marks register velocity and pause, vulnerability and resolve—the turbulence and grace that define a life. Based in Boulder, Colorado, after growing up in Connecticut, the decisive turn toward painting began in California. While working in architecture at Gensler in Los Angeles, the pull of the studio overtook me; the West Coast light and endless horizon redirected my path. Santa Barbara— my grandparents retired in Montecito, my mother and stepfather later settled, and where I spent decades of coastal summers driving up Highway 1—became the place that first tuned me to nature’s quiet mystery. That early-morning fog, salt air, and rolling hills still resonate in every canvas. A single sugar pine cone from those hills sits on my desk: talisman of family, coastline, and the conviction that beauty appears when I surrender control. Life changed forever on September 11, 2001, when my wife survived the collapse of the World Trade Center. That day propelled me out of finance, into architecture, and finally into full-time painting, where the architectural instinct now manifests in scale, structure, and fearless gesture. The largest works are acts of reclamation—monumental declarations of renewal through the sublime force of color. Harnessing the energy of the hero’s journey, I begin each painting with a single, uncertain mark and let the canvas instruct the next. What was once expressed on athletic fields is now poured into strata of pigment: a real-time revelation of movement, perseverance, connection, and the stubborn hope that beauty can rise from chaos.