Working primarily in painting and drawing, Jamie Gray Williams utilizes fantasy and humor to explore questions about inter-subjective limits and the complex relationships of mind and body, imagination and reality, self and others.
Her wild and often humorous oil and acrylic paintings possess a canny energy and fluidity, beginning life as intuitively conjured drawings. Her work opens our eyes to a kind of physical theater, where our existence with and within the human body is exposed as an absurd and curious psychological experience.
Jamie Gray Williams, The Lips, the Teeth, the Tip of the Tongue, Installation View, JDJ, 2024
Jamie Gray Williams, The Ghost in the Machine, 2024, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 60 x 34 in
Jamie Gray Williams, Imitative Magic (the Eternal Idol), 2024, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 55 x 80 in
Jamie Gray Williams, The Hand Refrains (Pygmalion), 2024, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 60 x 50 in
Jamie Gray Williams, The Lips, the Teeth, the Tip of the Tongue, Installation View, JDJ, 2024
Jamie Gray Williams, The Godhead Fires (Pygmalion), 2024, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 60 x 50 in
Jamie Gray Williams, The Lips, the Teeth, the Tip of the Tongue, Installation View, JDJ, 2024
Jamie Gray Williams (b. 1989, Evansville, IN; Lives and works in Philadelphia, PA) earned her MFA from Rutgers University in 2017, her BA from the University of Southern Indiana, and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2015. Her work has recently been exhibited at Venus Over Manhattan, New York, Marvin Gardens, New York, PM/AM, London, and The Pit, Los Angeles among others.
Jamie Gray Williams
Press
2022
Takac, Balasz, “Superzoom Presents a Group Show Exploring the Human Condition,” Widewalls Magazine, November 30, 2022
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