Women have been pictured as merging with the natural world throughout art history, but not quite in the subversive and sometimes sinister way that Robin F. Williams pictures the spritely athletes that populate her latest paintings at PPOW Gallery. Using oil, airbrush, poured paint, marbling and staining, Williams creates bodies that both compliment and stand out from their environments. Here, in a piece titled ‘Speak of the Devil,’ two characters with glowing, inhuman eyes reveal hands with flattened fingertips that match the tone of nearby leaves suggesting intriguing hybrid identities. (On view in Tribeca through Nov 13th. Masks required.)
