The artistic journey towards that one elusive masterpiece, a work borne of divine intervention, is a narrative that has spanned centuries. In 'I’m There Where The Angel Is Missing', Brittney Leeanne Williams embodies this tradition, eagerly awaiting the touch of transcendence as it materializes within her rich palettes depicting Neo-classical forms —an aesthetic testament to her unwavering dedication to the artistic lineage that preceded her. Williams’ own quest for creative transcendence reexamines art history by creating paintings filled with open-ended curiosity about the world within them and uses this same history as mirrors through which to observe our own moment in time.

Brittney Leanne Williams (b. 1990 in Pasadena, CA) attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, London, Venice, Italy, Antwerp, Copenhagen, and Hong Kong, as well as in Chicago and throughout the Midwest. She is a Joan Mitchell Foundation grant recipient and a Luminarts Fellow. Williams’s artist residencies include Arts + Public Life (University of Chicago) and McColl Center for Art + Innovation, among others. Her work is included in the public collections of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA; the Domus Collection, Beijing, CN; Fundacion Medianoche0, Granada, ES; the MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, IL; and X Museum, Beijing, CN. She lives and works in Los Angeles.

Artists: Brittney Leeanne Williams