ARTIST BIO
Born and raised in Tucson, Arizona, William Jaggers is a San Francisco-based abstract expressionist painter with a degrees in Painting and Printmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States and abroad (Mexico, Belgium, Spain, Italy). In addition to his studio practice, Jaggers has been an art teacher in San Francisco for 25+ years.
ARTIST STATEMENT:
Influenced by the shapes, textures, and rhythms embedded in memory, my work unfolds as a meditation on perception and transformation. Through layered surfaces, impressions reemerge as abstracted echoes—fragments of places, objects, and landscapes distilled through the fluid lens of recollection.
Each painting evolves through a tactile, intuitive process of layering,
removing, sanding back, and mark-making. This rhythm of construction and erosion mirrors the way memories shift, blur, and resurface over time. Traces of what once was remain visible beneath the surface, creating an
archaeological depth that invites quiet discovery.
Growing up in Tucson, Arizona, I was captivated by the desert’s ability to
reveal its history—the way sunlight and wind expose layers of color and
texture across the land. In my work, these natural rhythms find resonance. Layers of paint mimic the interplay of time and experience, allowing texture and color to emerge, fade, and reappear like recollections at the edge of consciousness.
My paintings explore the tension between dissonance and harmony, chaos and stillness. Flowing lines and irregular forms move within structured compositions, seeking balance while embracing the unresolved. Each piece becomes a dialogue between order and entropy, reflecting the layered complexity of both memory and existence.
Ultimately, my work is an invitation to look closer—to sense the traces of
what lies beneath, and to find beauty in the continual transformation of form, surface, and time.
