Sue Williams

“I want to draw attention to issues; I want people to be informed. It’s a scary time. Everything gets integrated into the art, not always consciously. [The paintings] become a refuge. If I have visibility, I have the responsibility to try and change things.”

(Sue Williams in conversation with Carly Gaebe, “The Sum of Its Parts: An Interview with Sue Williams”, Art in America, 14 January 2014)

“Painted in the year the United States began the Iraq War, the title Opaque Invasion, is an obvious reference to the US’ actions and to the opacity of reason behind those actions… Expanses of bright, solid pigment begin to populate Williams’ painting at this time. She fills in the space between her doodles and line to create a veritable web of interlocking forms, an approach that enables her to endow the linear and abstract forms of the prior decade with an intensified corporeality and visual impact, capturing the new subject of war."

(Johanna Burton, Sue Williams, JRP | Ringier 2016, p. 31)