Michael Williams’s new paintings are as subversive as they are dazzling. His recent exhibition included both colorful semiabstract works and more straightforward figurative compositions, some of them mocking self-portraits. The mix showed just how talented this virtuoso painter is at deploying strategies that are currently fashionable in painting: ink-jet printing; compositions that look like pastiches of modernist styles, including dripping, collaging, and cutouts; motifs that verge on the grotesque or comic; and works that address the issues of framing and edge. The upshot was an insight into