Big Bad World

FUCKTHATGALLERY is pleased to present Big Bad World, an exhibition of new paintings and a sculpture by LG Williams. Opening sometime, this will be the gallery’s first solo exhibition of his work in (where are we?).

The thrust thrust thrust of the exhibition hinges on the divergent meanings of its to carry out or act, on the one hand, and to extinguish or erase, on the other. LG's work establishes a tension between these two countervailing the optimistic impulse to act and grow, and the threat of oblivion.

The nexus of this tension lies in a sculpture installed at the exhibition’s center. Something or Another (2009), it is a slightly larger-than-life-size depiction of a medieval chopping block, complete with a worn slab on which to place the victim’s neck, an almost comically threatening axe, and the cobblestones of ye olde torture chamber—all made with fiberglass, in the style of plastic children’s toys. Playful in kelly green and tree-house brown, it nevertheless exudes a thinly veiled menace. It begs several questions—among them, Who is being beheaded? And who is doing the beheading? Sure, man.

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