Philemona Williamson "Fractured Tales"
June Kelly Gallery
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Fractured Tales, an exhibition of new paintings by Philemona Williamson — strong, colorful surreal narratives that both unsettle and delight -- will open at the June Kelly Gallery, on November 12.
Williamson injects the edginess of imagination, memory and mystery in her examination of life stages between adolescence and adulthood. She brings intrigue into the daily human drama of searching for identity and constancy, and her figures abound with restless energy and uncertainty.
Williamson says she thinks of her paintings more as an ongoing rearrangement of dreams. And because of the difficulty of making dreams a reality, her figures must juggle, contort, cajole and always be in competition.
Williamson is fascinated with the innocence and wonder of pubescent youth and its inevitable progression toward adulthood. In Fractured Tales, her figures’ energetic physical evolutions and interactions suggest foreboding and impulsive mayhem. She uses literal bits and pieces such as toppling cupcakes, someone falling on cracked ice, doll heads apart from torsos and the ambiguity of masked faces to imply unguarded, irrepressible upsets to universal supposed order.
Williamson’s paintings recognize the searching, the alienation and the commonplace tempests encountered in the growth to maturity. Her new work – spirited in its imagery, color, movement and brushwork -- demonstrates her understanding of the critical reality that life by design at any stage has unpredictable fractures.
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from November 12, 2010 to December 14, 2010