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Trained in traditional portraiture, Nicole Williford’s work spans from tight realism to abstract color fields. Painting is a practice of meditation for the artist as well as a method of processing the overwhelming stimulation present in day-to-day life, her work revolving around personal narratives, nostalgia, and identity.

In the artist’s latest work, Williford explores the cyclical nature of motherhood through paintings of personal family photographs. These paintings follow subjects from girlhood into matriarchy, with each piece examining the journey's respective faces and phases. Rendering loose and refined marks as a mode of expression, she mimics the fleeting and emotional memories of childhood and family life.

In the conjuring of these moments, Williford alternates between clarity and obscurity, expanding upon cherished memories while leaving harsher details purposefully unfinished. Meanwhile, the surreal tedium of family life prevails, touching down across beauty and grief—sometimes within a single tapestry—to create a unifying theme. Now a mother, Williford is also a daughter, and so the cycle continues but in a circular and self-reflective motion.