NYAB Event - Jessica Williams "Hard Light"

Jessica Williams "Hard Light"

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At Heist
Media: Painting

Heist Gallery is pleased to present HARD LIGHT, the first New York solo exhibition by Jessica Williams. The name is derived from the title of Joan Didion’s essay Los Angeles Notebook, in which she describes the Santa Ana that constantly disrupts Los Angeles, portending anxiety and casting a shadow of malaise over the city. An LA native, Williams explores this unsettling feeling in her often dark and boldly expressive work. Her paintings are at once starkly familiar – nature scenes that transform into violent kidnappings, a lonesome hitchhiker traveling along an abandoned road, a carnival starlet dancing in her grandest glory along an endless highway – yet mysteriously coded in symbols and rich references. She begins each work with a vague conception of its destination, letting her energy and imagination guide every brush stroke and defining line.