William B Hand

Born 1969, William Bryce (Bill) Hand grew up, and currently resides, in snow-shiny upstate New York.  Although he works with a variety of mediums, his heaviest concentration at the moment is in acrylic painting, which he generally applies with an airbrush.  Artistically influenced by the usual suspects, he strives to approach every work with genuine curiosity and sincerity, even when those influences bully their way to the fore.

Concerning the sometimes nightmarish apparitions that populate his art, he insists: "You will never find true evilness in my work, despite finding things that would -- presumably -- eat you if they had a chance."  Generally ascribing some humanity -- or at least the neutrality of nature -- to even the most fearsome of his creations, he says "There's plenty to fear in the world already, and my intent is not to expand that fear even deeper into the imagination...  I just love these things in the same way that children can love dinosaurs or in the way that peaceful people can appreciate the power and aesthetics of war machines...  I don't want myself -- or anyone else -- to be eaten alive or blown up, but it sure can be neat to look at things that would do just that."