RACHEL EULENA WILLIAMS

b. 1991 in Miami, Florida, USA

Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

 

Rachel Eulena Williams has developed a unique visual language operating on the threshold of painting and sculpture. A powerful duality runs throughout Williams’ practice. It can be seen in the use of conventional materials to create works that both challenge and transcend genres; in the interplay between two- and three dimensions; in the contradiction between frugality and opulence (humble materials versus luminous colour); not to mention the tension between optimism and sorrow (the joy of bricolage versus the social implications of cotton and rope). Williams’ working methods also relate to practices centred around community and sustainability, such as recuperation, recycling, patchwork and sewing, and the dichotomy between supposedly ‘high’ and ‘low’ artistic endeavours. As the filtration device par excellence, and much like the creative process itself, it captures only what is essential and important.

 

Rachel Eulena Williams (b. 1991, Miami, Florida, USA) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She holds a BFA from Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, also in New York.

 

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).

In 2023, she has had her first institutional solo show at Dundee Arts Center, United Kingdom. Her work is held in the collec¬tions of the Pérez Art Museum, Miami, the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Long Museum, Shanghai, China and TANK, Shanghai, China.