William Rhodes.

About William Rhodes

William C. Rhodes, III is a Baltimore-raised, San Francisco-based sculptor and mixed-media artist. His artistic production includes sculpture, assemblage, quilting, collage, painting and drawings, which draw upon African-American, African and folk traditions as well as his background in furniture design. Critics describe his art as committed to craft and meaning, collective memory, and the transmission of lived, often overlooked histories. His recurrent themes of familial relationships, community, resilience and spirituality are rooted in Black experience and humanist values. Juan Ramón López wrote, "Rhodes is a traveler whose work opens portals to the distant past … His carefully gathered layers of heritage are multigenerational memory montages assembled into altars of worship."