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Megan Williamson is featured in the Spring 2008 issue of failbetter:

More of Megan Williamson's beautiful work can be found on her website.

Megan Williamson is a painter formed by the sophisticated use of the French modernist tradition. Although her paintings may look at first glance especially indebted to the Fauve painters -- Matisse, Marquet, and Roualt, for example -- they contain as well solid abstract structure derived from an understanding of Cubist principles of construction. This of course was also true of the finest of the Fauves. Her double debt to them and to the Cubists is a hallmark of her great compositional acuity.

She has developed in a pretty straight line over the past 25 years, although I know she sees it as a series of tangents to a central series of issues. Her work has become more and more invested in a color sensibility which I can only see elsewhere in the most glorious years of Fauve painting. No earlier American painter deserves to be called a Fauve as much as she does, except Louisa Matthiasdottir, and on occasion, Nell Blaine.

[P.S. Lots of other great stuff at failbetter too. Have a look around.]

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