Focusing on community activities and family-oriented themes, artist Philemona Williamson brings cheerful flowers, autumn pumpkins, snowflakes, and the cool water of swimming pools to the Livonia Avenue station through the artwork, “Seasons.” The 18 colorful, painterly glass works highlight shared experiences of the changing seasons. Williamson strove to capture expressions of timelessness and bring light and peace to the station environment, inspiring riders' thoughts and memories of places they have been and the joyful start of each new day. 

Philemona Williamson is a narrative painter who was born in New York City, lives in Upper Montclair, New Jersey and works in nearby in East Orange. Her vibrantly colored paintings explore the bridge between adolescence and adulthood, encapsulating the intersection of innocence and experience at its most piercing and poignant moment. She has exhibited widely in the United States and abroad, in solo and group exhibitions, including at June Kelly Gallery in NYC, The Queens Museum of Art, Wisconsin’s Kohler Art Center, The Bass Museum in Miami, The International Biennial of Painting in Cuenca, Ecuador and recently, at her mid-career retrospective at the Montclair Art Museum in NJ. She is represented in numerous private and public collections and her public works includes a mosaic mural in the Glenwood Campus School for the NYC School Authority.  She is the recipient of numerous awards and residencies including the Joan Mitchell Foundation, Pollock Krasner, National Endowment for the Arts and New York Foundation for the Arts as well as serving on the advisory board of the Getty Center for Education.  She currently teaches painting at Pratt Institute and Hunter College in NYC.