The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
—Audre Lorde, Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
—Audre Lorde, Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
“My paintings are sentient,” states Robin F. Williams. “By that I mean, the figures I paint know they are paintings. To me they feel like clones, or AI with human emotions, or zombies with hearts of gold.”
The New York painter, renowned for monumental depictions of ambiguously gendered individuals, employs a wide variety of media and methods—including oil, airbrush, poured paint, marbling, and the staining of raw canvas—to create complex, contemporary images. Bolstering her facility for traditional painting techniques with craft hacks picked up from TikTok and YouTube videos, Williams stirs references to early modernism, advertising, folk art, and cinema into a confrontational take on the sexualized representation of women across context
