Sue Williams (Born 1954 in Chicago) came to prominence in the early 1980s for her densely composed, figurative paintings that explore the body and violence against women. Painted directly onto unprimed canvas, Future Angst with Capybara Lower Left is representative of Williams’s more recent work. Since 2017, she has been painting colorful, loose compositions where figurative elements intermingle with swaths of pure color. Williams is a skilled draftsperson whose early work was strongly influenced by cartoons and comic strips. In her recent, less crowded canvases, the quality of drawing is especially able to come through. While some figurative elements are identifiable—from naked bodies in ambivalent repose, to the titular capybara (a South and Central American species of rodent) at the canvas’s lower left—many elements are left unfinished or dissolve into meandering lines or patchy blocks of pale pinks, yellows, blues, and greens. Future Angst with Capybara Lower Left continues many of the themes and bodily motifs that characterized Williams’s early work, such as gaping bodily orifices and the omnipresent threats of violence and violation, while introducing Williams’s recent interest in open space and sketched renderings of figures.