Holly Williams' Los Angeles shimmers with the sequined lights of movie marquees and deco hotels, but the burnished glow masks a deeper unease. Inspired by photographs, her paintings swim in a photorealistic blur and have the bleached-out look of overexposed snapshots: a movie-theater audience fading to white in the dazzle of the screen, or beachgoers wavering in a sun-filled mirage. Her work appears alongside paintings and drawings from New York-based Justin Gabbard, whose flare for sharp, angular lines and color has landed his illustrations in Good magazine and The New Yorker.
– Jeanne Storck