Rachel Eulena Williams: Hair and Body

26 Aug-19 Nov 2023

Overview

This major project by New York-based artist Rachel Eulena Williams will be her first major solo exhibition in a UK institution.

Wiliams’ work encompasses painting, sculpture and print making, creating bricolage pieces that unfurl across walls from large, colourful canvases which are stretched and pulled as sculptural materials. Her unorthodox approach and bold palette free painting from the rigidity of the formal canvas and traditional approaches to colour. 

Her expansive, fluid works explore colour and form, framing and action painting, and her recent work has further developed into drawing, photography and video. For her exhibition at DCA she will expand her practice, creating new sculptural and painting works in the galleries.

About the artist:

Williams received a B.F.A. from Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York in 2013. Her work has been exhibited internationally at PACE Gallery, New York (2021), Canada Gallery, New York (2020), Loyal Gallery, Stockholm (2019), Ceysson & Bénétière, Sainte Etienne (2018), Night Gallery, Los Angeles (2018), Derek Eller Gallery, New York (2018), Cooper Cole, Toronto (2018), The Journal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2017), Mass Gallery, Austin (2017), SomeTime Salon, San Francisco (2017), and Center Street, New York (2017). 

Williams has held the SIP Fellowship at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, New York (2019), 68 Projects, Berlin (2018; 2020), and NY Studio Factory, Brooklyn (2014).

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