NEW YORK, NY.- Fractured Tales, an exhibition of new paintings by Philemona Williamson — strong, colorful surreal narratives that both unsettle and delight — opened at the June Kelly Gallery, on November 12. The exhibition will remain on view until December 14. Williamson injects the edginess of imagination, memory and mystery in her examination of life stages between adolescence and adulthood. She brings intrigue into the daily human drama of searching for identity and constancy, and her figures abound with restless energy and uncertainty. Williamson says she thinks of her paintings more as an ongoing rearrangement of dreams. And because of the difficulty of making dreams a reality, her figures must juggle, contort, cajole and always be in competition. Williamson is fascinated with the innocence and wonder of pubescent youth and its inevitable progression toward adulthood. In Fractured Tales, her figures&#14