MY ART
ABOUT WILLIAM A NOGUERA
ABOUT
WILLIAM A NOGUERA
ARTIST STATEMENT
Art is the vehicle by which I share the most personal, and intimate inner workings of my subconscious, and conscious mind for everyone to experience.
Whether I am working with a realistic image, or one that aspires toward abstraction in the purest form. It’s very important that my work remain intrinsically idiomatic to its form of expression.
My paintings are visual poems, informed and Influenced by my resistance to the rigid, and restrictive structure imposed upon me. They are the symptom, the physical manifestation of an actualized mind, redefining conventional concepts of space with the need to free itself of it by any means necessary.
It is in the “Need” that I discovered the solution, and took it to the extreme. By transforming the destruction of the walls that surround me into the creation of my art. Where the anxiety of the “site of conflict” overwhelmingly exists, breathes, and comes to life…
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PODCAST
In-Depth Interview: From San Quentin’s Death Row, Artist and Author William A. Noguera Shares His Compelling Story
WILLIAM A. NOGUERA – EMPTY SPACES
June 25 – September 10, 2022
Escape Artist:
Memoir of A Visionary Artist on Death Row
by William A. Noguera (Author), Walter A. Pavlo Jr. (Foreword)
An ABA Indies Introduce Top Ten Title for Winter 2018
William A. Noguera has spent thirty-four years at the notorious San Quentin Prison, home to the nation’s largest and deadliest death row. Each day, men plot against you and your life rests on a razor’s edge. In Escape Artist, he describes his personal growth as a man and artist and shares his insights into daily life and the fight to survive in the underworld of prison culture.
After being sentenced to death, he arrived at San Quentin Prison and was thrown into a rat-infested cell—it was there that he discovered the key to his escape: art. Over the next three decades, Noguera rebelled against conventional prison behavior, and instead forged the code he lives by today—accepting responsibility for his actions, and a self-imposed discipline of rehabilitation. In the process, he has explored his capacity to bring focus and clarity to his artistic vision.
Escape Artist exposes the violence, politics and everyday existence within the underbelly of society that is prison life. In an unprecedented narrative, Noguera reveals the emotional and heart-wrenching loss that landed him on death row and the journey he has taken to become an award-winning artist, speaker, and author—a tale of one man’s transformation through tragedy.
