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= Sue Williams (painter) =

Early life and education
Sue Williams was born in 1954 in Chicago Heights, Illinois. Williams started her education at Cooper Union in 1973. She later transferred to California Institute of the Arts and graduated with a B.F.A in 1976.

Work
Sue Williams is a contemporary American Artist who focuses on painting. Her work is often misinterpreted as other well known British artist, Sue Williams. Through her vibrant abstract paintings her work serves as a alternative to the male-dominated Abstract expressionist movement. Williams subverts the hyper-masculine themes that are popularly linked with abstract expressionism by replacing it with the postmodern feminist aesthetic that was rising in the 1980’s. These feminist issues Williams challenges within her works are centered on domestic violence, sexual obscenity, and sexism that exists within society. The subjects within Williams paintings include, genitalia and explicit severed body parts are in contrast with their cartoon like aesthetic and colorful compositions. William's works have evolved in her same sense of style and conceptual ideas. From early in William's career her works contains less of the cartoon like imagery and simple color schemes. As William's career progressed into the 90's and 2000's sexual motifs in her graffiti cartoon like design gathered more repetitious shapes and colors. Into the 2000's and William's most recent works show her style at it's strongest with abstract body parts and strong complementary color schemes.