Upcoming Exhibitions and News

new site specific collages coming up.......
La Mama Gallery early 2011
Brown Faculty Show late 2010
DUMBO Arts Festival Sept. 2010

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PRESS!! New Yorker Photo Blog

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OPENING NOW!
Site specific large collage installation
and
a selection of work from the "Stalled" series will be up
at
The Homefront
26-23 Jackson Avenue
Long Island City, Queens, NY 11101
between The Sculpture Center and PS1.
Opening August 7th, 12-6PM!!!!
up August 7 – October 2
open Saturday and Sunday from 12 to 6
also checkout:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/

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BIG collage installation in the Lobby of
7 West 34th Street, New York, NY
for the
The Affordable Art Fair New York City
May 6-9, 2010
7 W New York (7 West 34th St, near 5th Ave, NYC)
Also, selected work will be available at A.I.R. Gallery's booth

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Image from "Fridges" series on Gossip Girl!
+ a recreation of the actual fridge by the Gossip Grip Set Crew!
Ep. 319 Airs April 26th on the CW
see: http://www.cwtv.com/shows/gossip-girl

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"Stalled" - solo show
Brown University
February 5th -18th
List Art Building
First Floor Gallery
64 College Street
Providence, RI
opening February 11th@5PM

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a piece from the "barricades" cyanotype series will be show in:
"Altered", a group show
University of West Florida Art Gallery
Building 82
11000 University Parkway
Pensacola, FL
January 7th - February 10th, 2010
http://tag82uwf.wordpress.com
catalog download available

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Images from my "Barricade" (cyanotypes) series will be featured in AfterImage Magazine Nov/Dec.

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I will be featured in Photography Quarterly #98's "In Light" section

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Nymphoto Blog - interview with me by the wonderful Rona Chang at the Nymphoto blog site. Also included in the book: Nymphoto Books: Conversations Volume 1"
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Overall, Jennifer Williams work is concerned with a “desire to recycle and build” in order to engage the viewer in overlooked moments from the everyday. While her collage-based installations are grounded in photography, the artist is never satisfied with the rectangular frame, but instead, like Rauschenberg, finds fresh ways to work, with, around through and over the shape, searching for the moment when the initial form “falls off.”

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.