Through concise material abstraction, Lisa Williamson creates artworks that are visually precise, physically resonant, and often attune to the spaces in which they are exhibited. Approaching architecture as a container for individual and collective abstraction, Williamson expresses the resonance or charge of discrete physical spaces while also retaining an energetic and human quality.
For this special viewing room presentation, the artist has painted sections of the gallery walls a warm manila-cream with each panel grounded by the floor and outlined by a thin silver trim. Wrapping around the gallery like an extended envelope, the artist frames this room as an intimate space for abstraction. Modest in scale and reductive in nature, a selection of painted wood relief sculptures are positioned throughout to evoke a concentrated distillation -- of landscape and architecture, figure and object, site and sculpture.
Landscape (Extract), 2025 is installed as a singular, floating form. This narrow vertical slice is an earthy compression as metallic green hills are divided by bands of shimmering copper and rose. Regarding each artwork as both a projector and a container -- Williamson imbues physical space with a language that is at once expressive and resistant, evocative and opaque.
In proximity is a series of three Void sculptures, each a rectangular volume with a hollow interior carved out. Painted in thin layers of warm and cool contrasting color, Williamson incorporates glass and metallic particles to achieve subtle, sparkling, and light responsive surfaces.
Sir, 2025 stands as a figurative anchor within the exhibition and calls to mind both a tuxedo and a flute. Painted black and cream with a vertical line of pale peach dots running down its face, this animated form seems to emerge from the surrounding walls.
