Philemona Williamson

Philemona Williamson (b. 1951, New York, NY) creates dynamic paintings featuring vibrant narratives of children and adolescents intertwined in vibrantly colored and dreamlike scenes. Her work beautifully encapsulates themes of time and memory, revealing fleeting moments that are at once unknown but familiar. Her paintings inspire infinite narratives and invite questions as her subjects seduce the viewer. Williamson explores the tenuous stages between adolescence and adulthood, encapsulating the intersection of innocence and experience at its most piercing and poignant moment. The lush color palette and dreamlike positioning of the figures ensures that their vulnerability - of age, of race, of sexual identity - is seen as strength and not as weakness.