{"id":10745,"date":"2020-12-01T19:58:14","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T00:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=10745"},"modified":"2020-12-01T22:14:09","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T03:14:09","slug":"philemona-williamson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/philemona-williamson\/","title":{"rendered":"Philemona Williamson"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5683\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-10745-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/PhilemonaWilliamson.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/PhilemonaWilliamson.mp3\">https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/PhilemonaWilliamson.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10776 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/PW-artist-photo.jpg?resize=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/PW-artist-photo.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/PW-artist-photo.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/PW-artist-photo.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/PW-artist-photo.jpg?resize=696%2C464&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/PW-artist-photo.jpg?resize=1068%2C711&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/PW-artist-photo.jpg?resize=631%2C420&amp;ssl=1 631w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/PW-artist-photo.jpg?w=1135&amp;ssl=1 1135w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.philemonawilliamson.com\/\">Philemona Williamson<\/a> is a narrative painter who has shown widely in the United States and abroad. Her work explores the tenuous bridge between adolescence and adulthood, encapsulating the intersection of innocence and experience at its most piercing and poignant moment.<\/p>\n<p>The lush color palette and dreamlike positioning of the figures ensures that their vulnerability &#8211; of age, of race, of sexual identity &#8211; is seen as strength and not as weakness. \u201cMy figures navigate a world of uncertainty as they search for understanding\u2014both internally and in ever-shifting environments. I see the figures as vehicles to explore the existence of the most vulnerable adolescents, those evolving people of color, grappling with what will define and identify them. My paintings give voice and space to invisibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Williamson has exhibited her work for over 25 years at the June Kelly Gallery in NYC and recently, at her mid-career retrospective at the Montclair Art Museum in NJ. She is the recipient of numerous awards and residencies including the Joan Mitchell Foundation, Pollock Krasner, National Endowment For The Arts, New York Foundation For The Arts and Millay Colony as well as serving on the advisory board of the Getty Center for Education. Her work has been shown in many solo and group exhibitions such as The Queens Museum of Art, Wisconsin&#8217;s Kohler Art Center, The Sheldon Museum in Nebraska, The Bass Museum in Miami, The Mint Museum in North Carolina, The Forum of Contemporary Art in St. Louis, The International Bienal of Painting in Cuenca, Ecuador and most recently at the Anna Zorina Gallery in NYC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">She is represented in numerous private and public collections, including The Montclair Art Museum; The Kalamazoo Art Institute; The Mint Museum of Art; Smith College Museum of Art; Hampton University Museum; Sheldon Art Museum; Mott-Warsh Art Collection, and AT&amp;T. Her public works includes fusedglass murals created for the MTA Arts in Transit Program at the Livonia Avenue Subway Station in Brooklyn, a poster for the MTA Poetry In Motion and \u2014 for the NYC School Authority \u2014 a mosaic mural in the Glenwood Campus School. She currently teaches painting at Pratt Institute and Hunter College in NYC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">For Philemona\u2019s latest project, she created a series of paintings for the children\u2019s book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lubayas-Quiet-Roar-Marilyn-Nelson\/dp\/0525555552\">Lubaya\u2019s Quiet Roar<\/a>, just out from Penguin Random House.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10778\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10778\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10778 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/The-Gathering-48x-60-%E2%80%9D-oil-on-canvas-2019.jpg?resize=640%2C512&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/The-Gathering-48x-60-%E2%80%9D-oil-on-canvas-2019-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C819&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/The-Gathering-48x-60-%E2%80%9D-oil-on-canvas-2019-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C240&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/The-Gathering-48x-60-%E2%80%9D-oil-on-canvas-2019-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C614&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/The-Gathering-48x-60-%E2%80%9D-oil-on-canvas-2019-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1229&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/The-Gathering-48x-60-%E2%80%9D-oil-on-canvas-2019-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1638&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/The-Gathering-48x-60-%E2%80%9D-oil-on-canvas-2019-scaled.jpg?resize=696%2C557&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/The-Gathering-48x-60-%E2%80%9D-oil-on-canvas-2019-scaled.jpg?resize=1068%2C854&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/The-Gathering-48x-60-%E2%80%9D-oil-on-canvas-2019-scaled.jpg?resize=525%2C420&amp;ssl=1 525w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/The-Gathering-48x-60-%E2%80%9D-oil-on-canvas-2019-scaled.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10778\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;The Gathering&#8221; 48&#8243; x 60 \u201d oil on canvas 2019<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10775\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10775\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10775 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Here-I-Hold-Becoming-48x-60-oil-on-canvas-2020.jpg?resize=640%2C517&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Here-I-Hold-Becoming-48x-60-oil-on-canvas-2020.jpg?resize=1024%2C827&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Here-I-Hold-Becoming-48x-60-oil-on-canvas-2020.jpg?resize=300%2C242&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Here-I-Hold-Becoming-48x-60-oil-on-canvas-2020.jpg?resize=768%2C620&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Here-I-Hold-Becoming-48x-60-oil-on-canvas-2020.jpg?resize=1536%2C1240&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Here-I-Hold-Becoming-48x-60-oil-on-canvas-2020.jpg?resize=2048%2C1653&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Here-I-Hold-Becoming-48x-60-oil-on-canvas-2020.jpg?resize=696%2C562&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Here-I-Hold-Becoming-48x-60-oil-on-canvas-2020.jpg?resize=1068%2C862&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Here-I-Hold-Becoming-48x-60-oil-on-canvas-2020.jpg?resize=520%2C420&amp;ssl=1 520w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Here-I-Hold-Becoming-48x-60-oil-on-canvas-2020.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10775\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Here I Hold Becoming\u201d 48\u201d x 60\u201d oil on canvas 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/PhilemonaWilliamson.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listPhilemona Williamson is a narrative painter who has shown widely in the United States and abroad. 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