Sue Williams’ new paintings expand her investigation of figurative abstraction that began in the early 1990s. The content of Sue Williams’ abstraction remains true to its lineage—her focus, which was initiated from the intimate atrocities committed between individuals, is now attuned to the mayhem existing in our international political arena.

Her palette is bold and often fluorescent, each painting beguiles the viewer with its array of strange yet familiar biomorphic forms. A new painting titled Bindweed and Red depicts a white ground almost completely covered with chartreuse formations that are delineated in bright red. These shapes reference bodily appendages that are attenuated and also abruptly cut off – bindweed is a prolific weed that grows to strangle other flowers.

In Springtime for the RNC we see “flowery pink anal orifices expanding and contracting in the breeze” that float impulsively over a pale green ground. newamericancentury.org has sickeningly whitish colored intestinal forms that are outlined in primary red to stand out against a light blue ground. Williams achieves a coherency throughout her idiosyncratic visual language and offers a remarkable sense of disclosure.

Sue Williams is included in Extreme Abstraction at the Albright Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, N.Y., which will be on view through October 16, 2005. Williams has exhibited internationally for more than 15 years and was included in the 1993, 1995 and 1997 Biennials at the Whitney Museum of American Art, as well as the Venice Biennial in 1992. She recently has had solo exhibitions at the Palm Beach ICA in Florida, the Secession in Vienna, Austria, the Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Spain and the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, Mass.