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To Do: Twenty-five things to see...Sue Williams, New York Magazine, Jerry Saltz

November 18, 2024

To Do: Twenty-five things to see...Sue Williams, New York Magazine, Jerry Saltz

4. See Sue Williams

Look closely.

303 Gallery, 555 West 21st Street; through December 20.

Happily for us, Sue Williams, who blasted onto the stage in the 1993 Whitney Biennial, never left it. In her latest outing, we get large Arshile Gorky- inspired paintings by way of masterful, feminist detail. Drink in the prismatically colored surfaces, then get caught up in quasi-abstract images. Is that an onion bulb or a scrotum? All the semi-erotic mayhem subsides and becomes a seabed delight to drift in. 

Jerry Saltz