Jenny Williams
Bio: Jenny Williams is a Brooklyn-based painter. She received her BFA from the Cooper Union, and is an MFA candidate at Columbia University. She currently makes paintings, based on collages, of people in dream-like landscapes.
Thesis Exhibition
Artist Statement:
Paint is the alchemical medium that transmutes my obsessions. Those obsessions include alternate timelines, people and what they wear, the last lines of Shelley’s Ozymandias, the word poignant and poignant things, history learned from reading fiction, hands holding things, my late mother/1970s feminists, the background landscape in Dora the Explorer, David Chestnutt’s album cover art for the Let’s Pretend series of children’s records, rock formations, the icon montage from Gethsemane in the movie version of Jesus Christ Superstar, the song Oh Joy by Paco Cathcart, forgotten bookmarks, historian Heather Cox Richardson’s daily newsletter, the Magritte painting of a slice of ham with an eye in the middle of it, photographs of people embracing, and stories that end by circling back to the beginning.
Painting is my way of communicating and connecting with the future, the living, and the dead.
Jenny Williams
The Bridge #3 (Marta), 2026
Oil on canvas
Courtesy of the artist
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Bridge #1 (Paco and Whit), 2026
Oil on linen
Courtesy of the artist
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Bridge #2 (Clementine and Scarlet), 2026
Oil on linen
Courtesy of the artist
First Year Exhibition
Jenny Williams
Patchwork Chair Portrait #3 / Night Sky, 2025
Courtesy of the artist
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Patchwork Chair Portrait #2 / Sunrise, 2025
Oil on linen
Courtesy of the artist