Skarstedt presents an exhibition of new paintings by American artist Sue Williams this October. The new paintings will demonstrate Williams’ continued interest in exploring the fluid boundary between figuration and abstraction and her pursuance of the transformation of one into the other.

In this body of work, the paintings have an increasing ethereality. They utilise the lightness of exposed ground to create areas of watery colour that combine with the elements of mark making, doodling, lining and smudging seen in Williams’ previous works. In them, as ever, gender roles and politics are alluded to whilst she also explores memory and personal experience.

In the new paintings, the scenes conveyed are familiar in their fragments which remain disturbing in their contiguity. The bright colours are at once sweet and unsettling, the pretty colours of perhaps an ugly world. In these, small houses—markers of domesticity—dot the canvas. There are paths that lead up to them and staircases that seem to lead nowhere, they float with tables and chairs and the small childlike representation of a goat or a girl in pigtails. External and internal spaces combine and the swirling lines and tumbling forms which seem to disassemble, suggest a world in disarray.

The exhibition is free to view and will be held at Skarstedt Gallery until the 24th of November.