Rachel Eulena Williams

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Rachel Eulena Williams (b. 1991, Miami, Florida, USA) works at the boundaries between painting and sculpture. Her reconfigured canvases unbind painting from the stretcher, avoiding conventional support systems and imagining a myriad of spatial contortions. Her evident interest in colour represents a liberation from, and criticality of, Western art history’s othering of colour, and categorizing it as unruly, foreign, and vulgar. Instead, her interest in imagining unrestrained structures exceeds those boundaries and is partially inspired by science fiction. Williams’ drawings also manipulate the way images are presented, playing with assumptions about virtuosity through abstraction.

Williams received a B.F.A. from Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York in 2013. Her work has been exhibited internationally at The Modern Institute, Glasgow (2021), PACE Gallery, New York (2021), Canada Gallery, New York (2020), Loyal Gallery, Stockholm (2019), Ceysson & Bénétière, Sainte Etienne (2018), Night Gallery, Los Angeles (2018), Derek Eller Gallery, New York (2018), Cooper Cole, Toronto (2018), The Journal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2017), Mass Gallery, Austin (2017), SomeTime Salon, San Francisco (2017), and Center Street, New York (2017). Williams has held the SIP Fellowship at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, New York (2019), 68 Projects, Berlin (2018; 2020), and NY Studio Factory, Brooklyn (2014). Rachel Eulena Williams currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

Rachel Eulena Williams

Layered new landings

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Layered new landings, 2020

Acrylic, dye, canvas, wire and rope on wood panel

49" X 37"
124.46cm X 93.98cm

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Plum and water

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Plum and water, 2019

Etching ink and acrylic on paper

Unique

22" X 15"
55.88cm X 38.1cm

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Plum and water 2

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Plum and water 2, 2019

Etching ink and acrylic on paper

Unique

22" X 15"
55.88cm X 38.1cm

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Sunburn of the abundant earth

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Sunburn of the abundant earth, 2019

Etching ink and acrylic on paper

Unique

22" X 15"
55.88cm X 38.1cm

Rachel Eulena Williams

Headspace

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Headspace, 2019

Etching ink and acrylic on paper

Unique

22" X 15"
55.88cm X 38.1cm

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Round and round

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Round and round, 2020

Acrylic, rope and canvas on wood panel

24" X 24"
60.96cm X 60.96cm

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Hey Mars

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Hey Mars, 2019

Acrylic, various ropes, canvas, on wood panel

55" X 35"
139.7cm X 88.9cm

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Patterns of distance together

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Patterns of distance together, 2019

Acrylic, dye, canvas and rope on wood panels

58" X 52"
147.32cm X 132.08cm

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To look down the sea

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To look down the sea, 2020

Acrylic, dye, canvas, and rope on wood panels

63" X 110"
160.02cm X 279.4cm

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Tan World

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Tan World, 2018

Acrylic, flashe, and PVA on canvas and cotton rope

54" X 44"
137.16cm X 111.76cm

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Be Here Still

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Be Here Still, 2018

Acrylic, flashe, PVA, cotton rope, wood, metal

70" X 60"
177.8cm X 152.4cm

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Breaking Rhythms

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Breaking Rhythms, 2018

Acrylic, flashe, PVA and cotton rope on wood panel

28" X 23"
71.12cm X 58.42cm

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Rolling Kites

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Rolling Kites, 2018

Acrylic, flashe, and PVA on canvas and cotton rope

35" X 50"
88.9cm X 127cm

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Forward

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Forward, 2018

Acrylic, flashe, and PVA on canvas and cotton rope

30" X 31"
76.2cm X 78.74cm

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She walks he flys

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She walks he flys, 2017

Acrylic on canvas and rope

15" X 13"
38.1cm X 33.02cm

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Untitled Drawing 3

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Untitled Drawing 3, 2017

Acrylic, and colored pencil on paper

15" X 12"
38.1cm X 30.48cm

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Untitled Drawing 4

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Untitled Drawing 4, 2017

Acrylic, and colored pencil on paper

15" X 12"
38.1cm X 30.48cm

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Up from the center

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Up from the center, 2018

Acrylic, flashe, PVA, cotton rope, wood, metal

70" X 60"
177.8cm X 152.4cm

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Inside Out

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Inside Out

Acrylic, flashe, and PVA on canvas and mixed rope

35" X 45"
88.9cm X 114.3cm

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Blue Borders

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Blue Borders, 2018

Acrylic, flashe, PVA, and cotton rope on wood panel

33" X 26"
83.82cm X 66.04cm