Regarding the idea of outsider culture, even I felt a certain way in Australia, a distance. I feel this in America. I feel this when thinking about my family history. But these places, these people – their stories and their history is something that becomes a part of you, something new.
Justin Williams (b. 1984) produces contemporary figurative and representative artworks that focus on community, migration and modes of living. Rendered in murky oil paints and thin washes of colour, Williams’s figures and landscapes appear to hover above the canvas as they glow from within. In these artworks, the artist attempts to depict both the transitions of his grandparents’ migration from Egypt to Australia, and also his own outsider perspective towards both notions of place and time as well as hidden normalities within a group or individual. Williams views his own bloodline as something he is inherently close to but conversely was not directly exposed to and thus a distant or even historical viewpoint is enlisted.
Justin Williams lives and works in Santa Fe, US.
Justin Williams
Why be the harp when you can be the music, 2024
Justin Williams
You'll sit soon, 2023
Justin Williams
We crossed through places and we walked through high and low hills. Jadonna and Lord, 1883, 2023
Justin Williams
There was a glittery beaded ninja turtle, it was the finest gift I had ever received, 2023
Justin Williams
The man outside the co-op, 2023
Justin Williams
They all drew sticks to see whose was shortest, but I just sat in the sun, 2023
Justin Williams
It's me really doing that to someone else, 2024
Justin Williams
Open range zoo, 2024
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Chippendale, 2008
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