Hate it or love it, it’s hard to stay indifferent to Robin F. Williams’ paintings. Often alluding simultaneously to art history and pop culture, her portraits tend to feature striking women that command your attention.\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe paintings are extravagantly in-your-face regarding execution, style, image, and social thrust,” remarked New York Times, chief art-critic Roberta Smith, when describing Williams’ work. “They take aim at the impossible idealizations of women in both art and advertising, depicting mostly nude and aloof androgynous supermodels, and the occasional feline, with a new kind of cool yet visceral bravura.\u201d\n\n\n\n