 By 1993, Roberta Smith of "The New York Times" characterized her work as "figurative political art", comparing the "animated autonomy of her lines" with that of Betsy Friedman Murunashi-Lederman and Nicole Eiseman.The Santa Monica Museum of Art 1990 description of Williams' wall drawing, "Totem", pointed out she "took advantage of the freedom of working on a large scale and in an ephemeral situation".Williams herself explained her wall art