Christopher Williams is a second-generation West Coast Conceptualist. West Coast Conceptualists differ generally from their East Coast counterparts in their willingness to embrace humor and popular culture in their work. Williams’s work centers on photography, especially themes exploring how commercial photography is complicit in late capitalism. His work can resemble outtakes from a commercial photo shoot: his models are caught mid-pose, occasionally with imperfections like dirty feet. His photographs sometimes cheekily feature artworks by other artists, and he freely references commercial brands and standard studio equipment.

–Emily Nicole Rader, from the Glenstone Field Guide