The June Kelly Gallery is delighted to present Philemona Williamson in her fourteenth exhibition with the gallery.  Recent Paintings reflects her longtime fascination with visual intrigues from personal to universal narratives between pubescent youth and the edginess of curiosity and uncertainty of adolescent maturity.  The exhibition will open at 166 Mercer Street on April 18 and remain on view until June 4.

Williamson writes, “Recent Paintings is an exploration of personal, professional, and social transition.  Anxiety, hope, curiosity, wonder, fear – the adolescent body becomes an intense crucible of passion and mystery as it experiences the unknown.”

Williamson’s gallery exhibitions have highlighted her concentration on pubertal development and its inevitable progression toward adulthood.  She portrays the accompanying emotional stages—ambiguity, hesitancy, and vulnerability.

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