Chinatown, New York
Jamie Gray Williams
The Lips, the Teeth, the Tip of the Tongue
JDJJDJ is thrilled to present The Lips, the Teeth, the Tip of the Tongue, the artist’s debut solo exhibition at JDJ. The sweeping gestures, bold color, and dynamic linework found in Williams’ paintings reflects an interpretation of the relationships between living bodies, their porous boundaries, and how they can be affected or even completely transformed from their interactions with other human or non-human entities. This new body of work takes inspiration from the artist’s experience at the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia, where one visitor's lust for nude statues led to public displays of affection. Jamie Gray Williams (b. 1989, Evansville, IN; Lives and works in Philadelphia, PA) earned her MFA from Rutgers University in 2017, her BA from the University of Southern Indiana, and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2015. Her work has recently been exhibited at Venus Over Manhattan, New York, Marvin Gardens, New York, PM/AM, London, and The Pit, Los Angeles among others.