interview by ALEX GARTENFELD photographs by TODD COLE Robert Williams’ Mr. Bitchin’, a documentary film about the artist recently premiered at LACMA. Tucked away on the second floor of the last Whitney Biennial were six small watercolors by ROBERT WILLIAMS, paintings whose scale belied the magnitude of their subjects. Beyond Ferocious depicted a remarkable flesh-tinted primordial man with an open set of jaws representing his head. Astrophysically Modified Real Estate presented a cul-de-sac of single-family homes whipped up by a remarkably inert tornado. The works looked like studies for a dangerously primal irreality. Williams is a skilled watercolorist, but more importantly, he’s a defiantly provocative figurative artist, even though he describes his art as “low-brow.” Williams is part of New York’s famous Tony Shafrazi gallery, and was for decades a Zap Collective artist. In 1994 he founded Juxtapoz, a successful art magazine that presents a diversity of artistic formats,…