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LG Williams's paintings, an illusion of the skin takes place, like the
notion of a "skin ego," that being the psychic membrane that lets in differing
levels of worldly impression in much the same way that the epidermis works
as a kind of sieve - a container that doesn't quite contain.
Graphic and schematic shapes, articulated in a brackish, black paint, are
layered atop one another like those in archelogist's diagram of the levels
of an ancient city built up over time. Much of the aesthetic pleasure
that these works provide consists in tracking the progress and evolution
of these shapes through shifting zones of pictorial transparency, but the
skin-ego idea is most clearly conveyed by the yellow ocher ground that
these markings are inscribed into, its surface revealing a puckiering effect
that resembles the tough scales of a reptile.
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