Sister is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by John
Williams.

Using a layered process that asks to be unfolded, Williams engages with the work of two early avant-garde photographers, Iwata Nakayama, co-founder of the Ashiya Camera Club and leading figure in the New Photography movement in 1930's Japan, and Jaroslav Rossler, a Czech photographer known for constructed photographs which brought together a broad range of early modernist styles. Williams will also be showing a painting based on a robot toy package which elaborates on some of his structural concerns.

Williams’ paintings attempt to mediate our relationship to the past by
superimposing a kind of structured visual noise. The noise he introduces
tangles with past messages but never quite merges, introducing a type of
duration into the realm of painting.

Williams received his MFA from Cal Arts in 1999 and has been included in group shows at Session 13, MAMCO, Geneva, Switzerland, The Project, Los Angeles, The London Inst. Gallery,London,UK, Musee de Beaux-Arts, Dole, France, MARC FOXX Los Angeles,CA, Cohan Leslie and Brown, NY, NY, Greengrassi in London curated by Dennis Cooper, LA Trash and Treasure curated by Liv Stotlz at Milliken gallery in Sweden. This is his second solo show at Sister.