Robin F. Williams, 36, is a feminist artist. You can see many nude women in her paintings, and these women are vivid and exaggerated facial expressions or full of tensioned body movements, the images are very different from women in real life. The women in her painting express the unrestrained freedom of Simon's Rock, which reflects the real world's bondage to women. Her work has a unique appeal to the audience. The audience can see Robin F. Williams from the works. From another point of view, she is also looking at the audience through the work, directly conveying the uncomfortable that living under the eyes of others, a strange social culture.
Robin F. Williams, born in 1984 in Columbus, Ohio, received BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Inspired by the art teacher, she drawing nude paintings since high school. She once alerted the school to ask her to remove the works from the school's artistic performances. She has been awarded MacDowell Colony Fellowship and held solo exhibition at Jack the Pelican Presents.
She said in an interview with Juxtapoz magazine “I am interested in micro-expressions and how we read each other’s cues. There seems to be a lot of illiteracy around body language and not enough acknowledgment that non-verbal cues can be, and sometimes have to be, very complicated. I want to compress time in these paintings by using multiple markers within one piece, either through form or narrative. The goal is not to make a painting that feels timeless, but to make a painting that feels outside of time. It’s a way to discuss how images of women have consistently been so problematic.” Like she creates a work, she will dye canvas, oil paint, acrylic paint, spray gun, refer to many advertisements and art designs to find symbolic symbols of time. For example, to draw clouds, she references William Turner's work, when it requires moonlight, she will reference Rockwell Kent's work.
In collaboration with VSF Gallery, Robin F. Williams held her first solo exhibition in the West Coast of the United States in September last year, exhibiting a series of new works, refactoring the narrative culture of the American media, breaking many labels of women's characteristics and Sexual cues, and return an objective respect for women.
Figure 1：Robin F. Williams, Photo by Bryan Derballa © Robin F. Williams
Figure 2 Top left：Your Good Taste Is Showing, acrylic, airbrush, oil on canvas, 72" x 72", 2017 © Robin F. Williams
Figure 2 left middle：Collector, oil and mixed media on canvas, 67" x 45", 2017 © Robin F. Williams
Figure 2 left bottom：Kool-Aid Sipper, 36” x 36”, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 2018 © Robin F. Williams
Figure 2 Top right：Stop Signs, acrylic, airbrush, oil on canvas, 36" x 36", 2017 © Robin F. Williams
Figure 2 right middle： Sunday Player, oil, oil pastel, acrylic on canvas, 64" x 48", 2017 © Robin F. Williams
Figure 2 right bottom：Burn, molding paste, airbrush, oil, oil stick on canvas, 50" x 48", 2017 © Robin F. Williams
