Karen Lee Williams, Out There, 2016 © Karen Lee Williams
Karen Lee Williams, Remote Sensing
September 7 – October 15, 2016
Curated by Melinda Wang
Equity Gallery, 245 Broome Street, NY, NY 10002
Gallery Hours: Wednesday to Saturday, 12-6pm, and by appointment
Opening Reception
Wednesday, September 7, 6-8pm
Civil Twilight Viewing with Music Performance by Dan Riley
Fall Equinox (Thursday, September 22)
6:30-7:30pm (Civil Twilight, 6:52-7:19pm)
Closing Reception
Saturday, October 15, 6-8pm
Equity Gallery is pleased to announce Remote Sensing, a solo exhibition by Karen Lee Williams, on view from September 7 to October 15, 2016, with a public opening reception on Wednesday, September 7, 6-8pm. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in New York City.
Lee Williams presents new work that explores the space where logic and intuition press up against each other. Through a landscape of sculptures that evoke geological core samples, maps and graphs composed in intertwined rope, and cyanotype textiles, she charts this hard-to-explain territory. Objects reach, drop and slip away from their logical confines, suggesting a hidden influence just below the material surface. Their boundaries define and erase the moment when one thing becomes another.
Lee Williams’s art examines how scientific discovery and technology are infiltrated by superstition and mysticism. By contradicting and disrupting supposedly objective methods of measurement, she opens up the potential for other epistemological approaches. Her work engages with our assumptions about natural phenomena and materiality, and, in the same breath, recognizes the absurdity in attempting to always reconcile reason and gut feeling.
Karen Lee Williams (b. 1980 in Los Angeles, lives and works in Brooklyn) received her MFA from SUNY Purchase in 2014 and her BA in Art and Art History from UCLA in 2004. Her work has been shown in galleries and artist-run spaces, including recent group exhibitions at Visitor Welcome Center, Los Angeles; Vanity Projects, New York; Scott Charmin, Houston; Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC; and Paredon Blanco, Los Angeles.
About Artists Equity
New York Artists Equity Association, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1947 by artists and art patrons with the mission to promote opportunities for artists. It operates Equity Gallery, an art space located on the Lower East Side of New York City. For more information, please visit www.nyartistsequity.org.
