Escapism in Paint: Momentum Spotlight Libby Williams

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Libby Williams, Somewhere in New Mexico, Oil on Canvas, 30x28" 2011

Exploring new scales and styles of painting, LibbyWilliams received the Spotlight award for Momentum Tulsa. She will debut her projecton October 13.
Her paintings have focused on design, color and line. Williamssaid, “I love discovering new colors through mixing and developing a paintingaround the idea of dialogue between color. My desire to explore therelationships between colors is often responsible for the complex activity thatI develop in my work.”

Momentum Spotlight Artist Libby Williams at work in her studio

A current MFA student at the University of Tulsa,Williams spent much of last summer at the Chautauqua Institution in New York,painting for 12+ hours a day. While there, she painted outside, which helpedtransform her style for this new work. She said that painting traditional pleinair landscapes affected how she paints space.

Momentum Spotlight Artist Libby Williams- detail from new painting

She has created three large canvases for her MomentumSpotlight paintings, approximately 40” tall.  Williams said she hopes each painting is “an invitation to experience my own flavor of escapismby entering into new worlds where time is irrelevant and color has a voice.”

Momentum Spotlight Artist Libby Williams (c) meeting with
curators Laura Reese & Raechell Smith

See this article inour Art Focus Oklahoma magazine formore about all three Momentum Tulsa Spotlightprojects.
Momentum Tulsa opens October 13,8-midnight with a ticketed event full of music and performances.  Curated by Raechell Smith from H & RBlock Art Space at the Kansas City Art Institute and emerging curator LauraReese, the exhibition continues at Living Arts of Tulsa, 307 E Brady with freegallery hours through October 25.