Stephen Williams is an artist, born in Joliet, Ill. and currently living in Chicago. He graduated from the University of Illinois School of Architecture, as well as from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

His work is in the collections of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, JP Morgan Chase Bank, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and The American Medical Association.

He has shown in Chicago at CompassRose Gallery, Dart, and 65 Grand; as well as in New York at Deborah Sharpe Gallery and Charles Cowles.

The name of the site, “Abyss of Birds” is an homage to a passage of Quartet for the End of Time, composed by Olivier Messiaen.