Robin F. Williams: Night Shift
Pace Prints is pleased to present Night Shift, a solo exhibition of new monoprints and collages by Robin F. Williams, on view from May 2鈥揗ay 31, 2025, at 536 West 22nd Street.
The artist鈥檚 second solo exhibition with Pace Prints, this new body of work adopts the compositional and narrative vocabulary of b-movie horror films, which have become a central touchpoint in the artist鈥檚 paintings over the last several years. From vampire and slasher flicks to supernatural and psychological thrillers, these source materials feature the fear, pain, and desire of female protagonists, while leaning heavily into repetitious genre conventions, to invite the viewer into a curated emotional landscape.
For Williams, these expressions of extreme emotion, commonly feminized within the horror genre, become the means through which to examine universal human experiences across gender like catharsis for grief, feelings of vulnerability, as well as internal and external transformation.
Known for their boundary pushing approach to figurative painting, which utilizes graphic and illusionistic techniques alongside innovative mark-making, Williams delved into the technical and material potential of printmaking when creating the works for this show. To complement their fastidiously hand rendered subjects, the artist took on a more playful and improvisational approach in the printshop - collecting and layering imagery, while also introducing graphic elements.
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Pace Prints is pleased to present Night Shift, a solo exhibition of new monoprints and collages by Robin F. Williams, on view from May 2鈥揗ay 31, 2025, at 536 West 22nd Street.
The artist鈥檚 second solo exhibition with Pace Prints, this new body of work adopts the compositional and narrative vocabulary of b-movie horror films, which have become a central touchpoint in the artist鈥檚 paintings over the last several years. From vampire and slasher flicks to supernatural and psychological thrillers, these source materials feature the fear, pain, and desire of female protagonists, while leaning heavily into repetitious genre conventions, to invite the viewer into a curated emotional landscape.
For Williams, these expressions of extreme emotion, commonly feminized within the horror genre, become the means through which to examine universal human experiences across gender like catharsis for grief, feelings of vulnerability, as well as internal and external transformation.
Known for their boundary pushing approach to figurative painting, which utilizes graphic and illusionistic techniques alongside innovative mark-making, Williams delved into the technical and material potential of printmaking when creating the works for this show. To complement their fastidiously hand rendered subjects, the artist took on a more playful and improvisational approach in the printshop - collecting and layering imagery, while also introducing graphic elements.
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