Franklin Williams
Brown University

CREATIVE DIRECTION — CALEB CAIN MARCUS
PUBLISHER — BROWN UNIVERSITY
CHIEF CURATOR AND PUBLICATION COORDINATOR — KATE KRACZON
WRITERS — KATE KRACZON, DAN NADEL
INSTALLATION PHOTOS — JULIA FEATHERINGILL
BOOK PHOTOS — STEVEN PANECCASIO

Awarded

Published in conjunction with his exhibit at the Bell Gallery, It’s About Love is Franklin Williams’ first major monograph at eighty-six. 

The organizing system was built from a research artifact that wasn’t intended to be published; a scanned, typed page written by Williams.

The interleaving of his voice creates an alternating narrative with his work and serves to give a glimpse into his personality and thinking for the reader. 

The enlargements investigate the surface and scale, stitching, painting and beading that exemplify Williams’s style and would otherwise go unnoticed. 

When the book is closed the organizing system becomes sculptural, the artist’s voice appearing as colored stripes around the book’s edge.