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Jennifer Williams

GALLERY III

April 29 - May 24, 2009

Jennifer Williams has lived and worked in Manhattan for the last twenty years and has made the visual exploration of New York City a central theme in her work. By documenting, deconstructing and re-composing visual elements of the city she tells the stories of its inhabitants. Having worked as a carpenter and woodworker, Williams is engaged with structural concerns, especially the possibility of combining disparate elements to form a cohesive, new whole. In recent work, Williams photographs the overlooked objects of Manhattan’s raucous landscape, such as piles of discarded furniture or construction debris. In the studio, images of these “found materials” are cut out and re-assembled to form intricate, abstract collages. The final step in Williams’ process is to return the completed work to the street by pasting each piece in a location where the work partially blends with the surroundings. At first glance these, complex yet subtle interventions may appear to be a happy accident.

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