New Flooby Yellow marks a turning point in Sue Williams’s work, where figuration increasingly moves toward abstraction while retaining traces of the human body. Red contour lines and bright yellow washes create a dense, playful, yet restless composition in which limbs, faces, and sexual attributes emerge and dissolve. The white ground is active, not passive, serving as a breathing surface where presence and erasure coexist.

Williams explores the tension between figuration and abstraction. By wiping away and reworking lines, she creates a flexible, fluid surface where humor, sexuality, and discomfort intertwine. The result is a complex web of shapes and patterns that only reveal themselves fully upon sustained viewing.

Paintings from the late 1990s, like New Flooby Yellow, showcase Williams’s most ambitious and technically accomplished work. They combine color, rhythm, and form with her feminist critique and dark humor, echoing Surrealist precedents while offering a contemporary re-reading of desire and representation.