On the occasion of Robin F. Williams: Night Shift, Pace Prints invites you to attend a conversation between artists Robin F. Williams and Marilyn Minter.
Moderated by Pace Prints’ master intaglio printer Sarah Carpenter, the event will take place on Thursday, May 15 from 5-6pm in our gallery at 536 West 22nd Street.
This dialogue will focus on intersecting themes within both artists’ work, including the ways in which they subvert and contend with the depiction of women across cinema, social media, advertising, and beyond.
The conversation will also focus on the innovative print-making techniques used to create the unique monoprints and collages included in Williams’ exhibition.
RSVPs for this event have reached capacity. A recording of the conversation will be available to view after the event.
About Robin F. Williams
Known for their large-scale paintings of stylized, sentient, yet ambiguously generated female figures, Robin F. Williams (b. 1984) meticulously deploys oil, airbrush, poured paint, marbling, and staining to construct deeply textured and complex compositions that transcend an identifiable medium. With a masterful technical understanding and an innate sense of curiosity, Williams fuses imagery from social media channels with references to early modernism, pop culture, advertising, and cinema, to challenge the systemic conventions around representations of women.
They received their BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and has presented solo exhibitions at P·P·O·W, New York, NY; Morán Morán, Mexico City, Mexico; Perrotin, Tokyo; Pace Prints, New York, NY; and Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, CA, among others. Robin F. Williams: We’ve Been Expecting You, Williams’s first solo institutional exhibition, was on view at the Columbus Museum of Art, April 5 - August 18, 2024.
Their work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions nationally and internationally including Pictures Girls Make: Portraitures, curated by Alison Gingeras, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA; In New York, Thinking of You (Part I), Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY; I’m Not Your Mother, P·P·O·W, New York, NY; Fire Figure Fantasy, ICA Miami, Miami, FL; Present Generations, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; Bitter Nest, Galerie Perrotin, Tokyo, Japan; XENIA: Crossroads in Portrait Painting, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY; Nicolas Party: Pastel, Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY; SEED, curated by Yvonne Force, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY; and more.
Their work is currently in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Collection Majudia, Montreal, Canada; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL; X Museum, Beijing, China; among others. Robin F. Williams is represented by P·P·O·W.
About Marilyn Minter
Marilyn Minter creates photographs, paintings, and videos that offer nuanced representations of women. Well known for her meticulous technical mastery, Minter’s details often highlight natural corporeal qualities that are omitted in mass-media depictions of women, such as body hair and stretch marks, which she deems not only authentic but also beautiful. Minter has unabashedly advocated for women’s rights and reproductive freedoms, a stance, which for her, always includes women openly expressing their sexuality and desire—reclaiming the female body and subverting the historical objectification of women from the male gaze.
Born in Shreveport, LA in 1948, she received her BA from the University of Florida at Gainesville and an MFA from Syracuse University in 1972.
Living in New York since 1968, Minter he has been featured in a number of major solo exhibitions, most recently at Montpellier Contemporain, Montpellier, France (2021); MoCA Westport, Westport, CT (2021); Moss Arts Center, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA (2020). Her solo exhibition “Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty,” travelled from the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston to the Brooklyn Museum between 2015 and 2016.
Minter’s work is included in numerous public collections, including the Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
She has received numerous honors and distinctions such as the Savannah College of Art and Design, deFINE ART Honoree (2020); Planned Parenthood, Woman of Valor Award (2016); Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant (2006); Guggenheim Fellowship (1998); the New York Foundation for the Arts, Visual Arts Grant (1992); National Endowment for the Arts, Artist’s Fellowship Grant (1989); and the New York Foundation for the Arts, Artist’s Grant (1988).
