
William Villalongo
Olympia's Window, 2015
Acrylic, paper and velvet flocking on wood panel
60 x 46 in.
LeRonn P. Brooks wrote Olympia’s Window, 2015, “is a uniquely surreal netherworld where women are protagonists… they are inhabitants of a mythical society who thrive in a self-fashioned, alternative modernity....
LeRonn P. Brooks wrote Olympia’s Window, 2015, “is a uniquely surreal netherworld where women are protagonists… they are inhabitants of a mythical society who thrive in a self-fashioned, alternative modernity. We are allowed only a voyeur’s eyeful as they gather in plush landscapes comprised of arabesque flora and traverse wide vistas that push the perspective backward toward minuscule heights. Together, these women govern the deconstruction of modernist painting by incorporating it into secular, down-to-earth practices and non-secular rituals.”