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Sue Williams: Project for the New American Century

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From the all-over-patterened, cock-and-balls expressionism of her early career, Sue Williams has — in the last two decades — developed a tight formal language of figurative abstraction, which still surprises discerning viewers with its covert genitalia and spurts of bodily fluids. Her canvases have grown increasingly crowded, melding limbs, scrotums, intestines, and synapses through confident, cartoonish lines. But sex takes a back seat in Project for the New American Century, which collects new paintings and drawings that, in the midst of William's bustling aesthetic, carry great political import. Severed arms and billowing smoke — considered beside titles such as American Enterprise, Market Logic, and so on — evoke the frantic, indecipherable violence that's inflicted upon and by the American military abroad.

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