Roberts Projects is pleased to present Synonym, Justin Williams’ first solo exhibition at the gallery. Created in his studio in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Williams’ paintings bloom from an intricate and autobiographical root system that coils, veins and splinters through meditations on his upbringing in Melbourne, Australia, as well as his ancestral connections to Alexandria, Egypt and visions conjured by the surreal landscape of the American Southwest. Painted with a gently-worn palette that includes brick, indigo, ochre, jade, slate, rust, lilac, bone and terracotta, Williams composes scenes of gatherings—real and imagined—in which friends, relatives, strangers, lovers, animals and phantoms intermingle; as an artist, Williams transforms into a topographer of memory on an odyssey of encounter.