P·P·O·W is pleased to present Robin Williams’ first solo exhibition, Rescue Party. Through a series of eleven paintings, Williams reveals a surreal world inhabited by adolescents of ambiguous gender that are on the brink of discovery or revelation.  Each painting has a distinct narrative but with no specific conclusion.  There is a sense of pause in each work which heightens the sense of the impending chance for change. Williams is able to achieve this surreal timelessness through her painting techniques. While at once employing traditional painting methods, they are also experimental and intuitive. Their use of color, light, texture and composition are all used to explore painting as a medium and to link this to the conceptual content within each work.

Represented through her adolescent subjects, Williams examines the internal phase of development that takes place during young adulthood.  These youths inhabit a liminal state of being; they are often stranded, Hopperesque figures, posing in their costumes, hoping their visage will evince an inner truth. Tired Prince is one such adolescent. He is at once regal but absurd, and bravely self-aware. Each of her characters is seeking a sense of identity, safety, and well-being.  Some choose to wait for rescue, while others willfully adopt a persona hoping it will lead them toward salvation.