Robin F. Williams (b. 1984) utilizes a variety of techniques, including oil, acrylic, airbrush, marbling, and the staining of raw canvas, to create figurative paintings that are at once confounding and familiar. Challenging systemic conventions of representations of women in art history, commercial advertising, and pop culture, Williams refers to her female figures as “zombie nudes” – figures that are sentient, yet ambiguously generated. Earlier this year, Williams presented a series of new paintings that reimagine the coded narratives of American media in With Pleasure at Various Small Fires, Los Angeles. With her west coast debut as well as three solo exhibitions at P·P·O·W, Williams has garnered critical recognition for her contribution to figurative and feminist painting, noting the complexity of her compositions, technical virtuosity and the psychological depth of her narratives. In her review of Williams’ 2017 exhibition Your Good Taste is Showing, Roberta Smith of the New York Times wrote: “These painting are timely, but they are also enigmatic, off-putting and out there in rewarding ways.” Williams received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, has been included in numerous exhibitions nationally and internationally and has been honored as the Josephine Mercy Heathcote Fellow at The MacDowell Colony. She had solo exhibitions at P·P·O·W, New York, NY; Bard College at Simmon’s Rock, Great Barrington, MA; and Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn, NY. Her work has also been included in group exhibitions at The Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY; Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY, and will be included in a forthcoming group exhibition opening January 2020 at Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY. Additionally, Williams will release a series of monoprints in collaboration with Pace Prints during Art Basel Miami Beach 2019.