May 17 – June 21, 1980
Part fiction, part essay, REESE WILLIAMS' work is built from specific references to literature, film and art as well as to specific places, history and recent political events. The 84 panel works will be installed in the Large Gallery and Back Gallery and makes use of photographs, text and headlines. The "ecology" of WILLIAMS' piece brings together such diverse subject matter as the South Moluccas, the New York Reference Library, Washington, D.C., Brecht, movie stars, the radioactive chemical elements, Paul Newman's career, Leonardo, Edison, Anne Frank, Genet, the Fresnes Prison, Young Jesse in the New York Post, food cycles, bean rubbing, an airplane hijacked in Germany, Eden, Somalia, the hospital, Broadway, the Incas, gold, Spain, Pizzaro, Godard, and the diamond district.
