JUXTAPOZ Magazine – Preview: Robin F. Williams “Night Shift” @ Pace Prints, NYC

In what is always an interesting place to display those that work with printing and works on paper, the former cover artist Robin F. Williams has been appointed to open it Night Nubia in Pharaohs prints this week.

The second individual exhibition of the artist with Pace Prints, this new work is adopted by the synthetic and narrative vocabulary of horror movies B-Movie, which has become a central contact point in the artist’s paintings over the past few years. From the clicks made of vampires and SLASHER to the supernatural excitement of nature and psychological, these source materials are characterized by fear, pain and the desire of female supporters, while it is strongly inclined to repeated gender agreements, to invite the viewer to a coordinated emotional scene.

For Williams, these expressions of severe emotions, which are usually famed in the type of terror, become the means through which to examine global human experiences through sex such as venting for sadness, feelings of weakness, as well as internal and external transformation.

Williams is famous for the border payment approach for the pictorial paint, which uses graphics and insulting techniques in addition to making innovative signs, in the technical and material capabilities of printing when creating works for this show. To complete their hand -to -hand topics, the artist took a more fun and improvised approach in printed images – collection of photos and layers, with graphic elements as well.

Likes like Dividedand PiercedAnd Rise An example of this is the reshaping of the visible elements by installing female images with familiar motifs related to horror that indicate the interaction of internal feeling and external forces. Repeated visual images between these works create an implicit dialogue that carries a strange hidden throughout the entire exhibition.

Expanding the material dialogue between businesses, Williams also merged the secondary products of the printing industry – re -use of neglected materials and testing publications to create the first repairs. It works like Firestarterand evictionAnd Uniform Look for the artist who tends to immediately from the technique to create a supernatural space within these works that indicate an emotional world that exceeds the boundaries of the body.

Night Nubia It offers the first series of unknown pieces to the artist who was created with pace publications: Taro flowers. This series of Monoprints takes the Moiré effect when taking a picture of a movie on TV, where William works often begin. Film distortions, dodges and aesthetic imaging can be found throughout the publications in the display Taro flowers To the broken colored aircraft shutterand shockAnd Dread series.

With the praise of the subject of the show, Williams also wanders the physical hole associated with horror movies to collect show stories in what they referred to as a form of fans imagination. Show Night Work Night, which bears the name of the exhibition, works as an imagined marketing poster, which leads to the temptation to enter the exhibition and a cinematic world in the amazing and exciting artist.

The associated of the exhibition will be a printed poster for the night film, which will be free for visitors to take while the supplies continue.