Studiosis
June 20 — August 2, 2024
New York: 24th Street
Gladstone presents Studiosis, an exhibition of new paintings and drawings by Michael Williams. The paintings in the exhibition diverge from Williams’ recent choices in materiality and figuration, by utilizing exclusively analog modes of mark-making and generating subjects from visual observation. In earlier work Williams has incorporated digital drawing and inkjet printing to challenge conventional painting doctrines, Studiosis presents his embrace of tradition by returning to painting in the time-honored fashion, with brushes and pigments. In Studiosis, Williams addresses the interior of his studio as a historical subject in painting. Whereas much of Williams’ previous work has generated subject, meaning, and image from his mind’s eye, here he turns to observational painting as a way of deprioritizing the individualistic position of the contemporary artist.
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About
Michael Williams (b. 1978, Doylestown, Pennsylvania) lives and works in Los Angeles. He has been the subject of major exhibitions at The Power Station, Dallas (2022); LOK, the Kunstzone in the Lokremise, Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, Switzerland (2021); Le Consortium, Dijon, France (with Tobias Pils, 2017); Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2017); Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Canada (2015); and Gallery Met, New York (2015). Recent group shows include .paint, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2020); Joe Bradley, Oscar Tuazon, Michael Williams, Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Greenwich, Connecticut (2018); The Trick Brain, Aïshti Foundation, Lebanon (2017); High Anxiety: New Acquisitions, Rubell Family Collection, Miami (2016); Artists and Poets, Secession, Vienna (2015); and The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2014). His work is in the permanent collections of institutions including the Hammer Museum, California; Dallas Museum of Art, Texas; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Canada.
