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2012 Figure Paintings
2012 Figure Paintings by LG Williams / The Estate Of LG Williams
Category:Art & DesignReads:224Uploaded:03 / 16 / 2012ShareAdd to collectionSuper Window Project / LG Williams and The Estate of LG Williams / ARCO Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid, February 9-12, 2012
Super Window Project / LG Williams and The Estate of LG Williams / ARCO Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid, February 9-12, 2012
Category:Art & DesignReads:169Uploaded:01 / 16 / 2012ShareAdd to collectionLG Williams: Exhibitions
LG Williams: Exhibitions www.lgwilliams.com
Category:Art & DesignReads:218Uploaded:07 / 07 / 2011ShareAdd to collectionLG Williams and The Estate Of LG Williams -- Complete Press
LG Williams and The Estate Of LG Williams -- Complete Art Reviews www.lgwilliams.com
Category:Art & DesignReads:201Uploaded:07 / 05 / 2011ShareAdd to collectionLG Williams and The Estate Of LG Williams -- Complete Press Releases
LG Williams and The Estate Of LG Williams -- Complete Press Releases www.lgwilliams.com
Category:Art & DesignReads:331Uploaded:07 / 05 / 2011ShareAdd to collectionLG Williams -- FOR SALE BY ARTIST (2011): United States International Art Exhibition Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
PRESS RELEASE – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 23 May 2011 LG WILLIAMS / ESTATE OF LG WILLIAMS CORRALES, NEW MEXICO USA I N F O @ L G W I L L I A M S . C O M W W W . L G W I L L I A M S . C O M P. 415-937-1306 STUDIO HOURS BY APPOINTMENT ONLY American Artist Attempts To Sell U.S. Venice Biennial Pavilion To Pay U.S. Debt By Noemi Letizia info@forsalebyartist.net | 03:29 AM MILAN — For the last three years Honolulu based artist LG Williams has been supporting himself by selling real estate. So when he was invited to participate in the Internet Pavilion of The 54th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, he imagined creating a larger artwork outside this pavilion that addressed one of the most pressing issues in the world today—the United States Debt Crisis. In what will undoubtedly become the most-surprising and talked-about provocation of this year’s Biennial, Williams’s “FOR SALE BY ARTIST” is an unusual, thought-provoking attempt to unilaterally sell the US Pavilion at the Venice Biennial to help diminish the US Debt. The pavilion was originally built in 1930 and is currently owned by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. All proceeds from the sale (less the standard 6% commission fee) of the pavilion will be paid directly to the United States Treasury to service the United States Public Debt — a measure of the obligations of the United States Federal Government — which as of May 6, 2011, the Total Public Debt Outstanding of the United States of America was $14.32 trillion. No Guggenheim official would publicly comment on the action, however one was captured on tape muttering, “LG is …”. “I know its not selling for much, and some people will laugh," says Williams, who describes this clandestine action as a reality-check artwork which "brings much needed attention and scrutiny to the US Debt." Speaking with his usual panache and flair for paradox, he continued, "Some will think this is stupid. Others will insist that this is brilliant. I don’t care. I just want to bring down the debt." But no doubt many suave art collectors and astute patrons who stand before the pavilion and see the “For Sale By Artist” sign during the event, will want to know, “Where can I buy a limited-edition brochure for my art collection?” “From the Gloria Maria Gallery, in Milan” says the artist unabashedly grinning from ear to ear. This is an unusual project in many ways but this isn’t the first mega art project this artist has brought to the international art world and global financial community. In 2007-09, Williams created a work of self-proclaimed “House Art,” a site-specific artwork, located in Happy Valley, Hawaii, a remote rainforest in Maui. While remaining determinedly focused on issues Williams defined as vital to our time and sculpture in particular, Williams devised a visual prophecy, an epicenter, another precedent setting artwork which radically examined the local and global influence of “self- interest.” HWTBFO, as it became known, was the definitive artwork of the Subprime Mortgage Crisis, which started in the USA in fall of 2006 and became the global financial crisis we are faced with today. "LG is driven with a keen interest in cardiology, black holes and making money for the poor (namely himself)," says Richard Reisman, who tried to acquire several works by him for the Museum of Modern Art in New York when he was a San Francisco art curator. "Artists give us beautiful things to look at, like amazingly tiny intricate things, but they can also raise huge questions that allow us to rethink hermeneutics or cultural identity art." The curator describes Williams as a "prophetic artwork made to make art," perhaps most comfortable with surfing but also comfortable prompting scandalous headlines, angry manifestos, tyrannical press releases, and making esoteric artist books, photographs of scantily clad sunbathers, pornographic sculptures and architectural installations which beg for more. In any case, Williams rev
Category:Art & DesignReads:198Uploaded:05 / 24 / 2011ShareAdd to collectionAmerican Artist LG Williams Attempts To Sell U.S. Venice Biennial Pavilion To Pay U.S. Debt
PRESS RELEASE – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 23 May 2011 LG WILLIAMS / ESTATE OF LG WILLIAMS CORRALES, NEW MEXICO USA I N F O @ L G W I L L I A M S . C O M W W W . L G W I L L I A M S . C O M P. 415-937-1306 STUDIO HOURS BY APPOINTMENT ONLY American Artist Attempts To Sell U.S. Venice Biennial Pavilion To Pay U.S. Debt By Noemi Letizia info@forsalebyartist.net | 03:29 AM MILAN — For the last three years Honolulu based artist LG Williams has been supporting himself by selling real estate. So when he was invited to participate in the Internet Pavilion of The 54th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, he imagined creating a larger artwork outside this pavilion that addressed one of the most pressing issues in the world today—the United States Debt Crisis. In what will undoubtedly become the most-surprising and talked-about provocation of this year’s Biennial, Williams’s “FOR SALE BY ARTIST” is an unusual, thought-provoking attempt to unilaterally sell the US Pavilion at the Venice Biennial to help diminish the US Debt. The pavilion was originally built in 1930 and is currently owned by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. All proceeds from the sale (less the standard 6% commission fee) of the pavilion will be paid directly to the United States Treasury to service the United States Public Debt — a measure of the obligations of the United States Federal Government — which as of May 6, 2011, the Total Public Debt Outstanding of the United States of America was $14.32 trillion. No Guggenheim official would publicly comment on the action, however one was captured on tape muttering, “LG is …”. “I know its not selling for much, and some people will laugh," says Williams, who describes this clandestine action as a reality-check artwork which "brings much needed attention and scrutiny to the US Debt." Speaking with his usual panache and flair for paradox, he continued, "Some will think this is stupid. Others will insist that this is brilliant. I don’t care. I just want to bring down the debt." But no doubt many suave art collectors and astute patrons who stand before the pavilion and see the “For Sale By Artist” sign during the event, will want to know, “Where can I buy a limited-edition brochure for my art collection?” “From the Gloria Maria Gallery, in Milan” says the artist unabashedly grinning from ear to ear. This is an unusual project in many ways but this isn’t the first mega art project this artist has brought to the international art world and global financial community. In 2007-09, Williams created a work of self-proclaimed “House Art,” a site-specific artwork, located in Happy Valley, Hawaii, a remote rainforest in Maui. While remaining determinedly focused on issues Williams defined as vital to our time and sculpture in particular, Williams devised a visual prophecy, an epicenter, another precedent setting artwork which radically examined the local and global influence of “self- interest.” HWTBFO, as it became known, was the definitive artwork of the Subprime Mortgage Crisis, which started in the USA in fall of 2006 and became the global financial crisis we are faced with today. "LG is driven with a keen interest in cardiology, black holes and making money for the poor (namely himself)," says Richard Reisman, who tried to acquire several works by him for the Museum of Modern Art in New York when he was a San Francisco art curator. "Artists give us beautiful things to look at, like amazingly tiny intricate things, but they can also raise huge questions that allow us to rethink hermeneutics or cultural identity art." The curator describes Williams as a "prophetic artwork made to make art," perhaps most comfortable with surfing but also comfortable prompting scandalous headlines, angry manifestos, tyrannical press releases, and making esoteric artist books, photographs of scantily clad sunbathers, pornographic sculptures and architectural installations which beg for more. In any case, Williams rev
Category:Art & DesignReads:241Uploaded:05 / 23 / 2011ShareAdd to collectionBARON OSUNA / SUPER WINDOW PROJECT: «ANGELINA JOLIE WAS HERE BY LG WILLIAMS/ESTATE OF LG WILLIAMS» DELPHINE HERVIEU / GRAZIA.IT -- http://bit.ly/kSdhzS
BARON OSUNA / SUPER WINDOW PROJECT: «ANGELINA JOLIE WAS HERE BY LG WILLIAMS/ESTATE OF LG WILLIAMS» DELPHINE HERVIEU / GRAZIA.IT -- http://bit.ly/kSdhzS
Category:Art & DesignReads:283Uploaded:05 / 20 / 2011ShareAdd to collection“Anything But” By LG Williams / Estate Of LG Williams Opens June 6 At The Container
PRESS RELEASE – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 16 May 2011 LG WILLIAMS / ESTATE OF LG WILLIAMS TURLOCK, CALIFORNIA USA I N F O @ L G W I L L I A M S . C O M W W W . L G W I L L I A M S . C O M P. 415-937-1306 STUDIO HOURS BY APPOINTMENT ONLY “Anything But” Opens June 6 At The Container By The Container, Tokyo, info@the-container.com | 05:09 AM TOKYO — The Container in Tokyo is pleased to present an exhibition of new tape drawings by the American artist LG Williams/Estate Of LG Williams. This is his second international solo exhibition in Tokyo – his fourth in Japan – and his first at The Container. For “Anything But” LG Williams constructs visual allegories that consider the nature and implications of perception by manipulating the conventions and structures of abstract painting in general, and graphic art in particular. The works in the show create corollaries for sometimes arcane literary, philosophical and historical conceptual art concepts. Raised by a psychologist who longed to be an art historian, Williams incorporates an exhaustive knowledge of human consciousness and art history through drawing utilizing a newly invented (and soon to be patented) painter’s-tape-intensive drawing process. His images originate from an extensive archive of magazine, journal and newspaper images that he has imagined over the years, as well as from the lost photographs of his happy childhood and hastily forgotten day dreams. He continuously draws rectangles, then stretches, rotates, and crops them. The resulting rectangular tape drawings ultimately serve as preliminary studies for more rectangular tape drawings. Rendered in multiple hues, these novel concoctions, achieved by applying tape then more tape and then more-more tape, have a precise photographic quality that is reminiscent of too many things to mention in passing. Williams starts his most recent tape works in ultramarine, a color that combines the depth and complexities of black with the lightness and transparency of pink, and which imparts the historicizing feel of now-obsolescent blueprint line drawings. Lately, his subject matter has expanded from cultural-identity-gender politics art to include forgotten figures from political, philosophical, and economic history as well as from forgotten artists from Artforum magazine. In What The Fuck Rectangles #23, he suggestively traces the lineage of economic theory by taping rectangles into a creviced rectangle, evoking something like a Mount Rectangle, which, in turn, creates a structural device that recalls his earlier use of rectangles from nearly a decade ago in which he blurred the traditional distinction between figure and ground and rectangle. In other works, the rectangles appear as the lost frames (or rectangles) of classical economists such as David Hume, Adam Smith, and John Stuart Mill, while the heterodox economists such as Karl Marx, Joseph Stalin, and John Maynard Keynes might be imagined within other rectangles. In a parallel rectangle tape drawing, Dante and Virgil stand in the lower section of the drawing, and a reversed rectangle of the underlying rectangle. In The Divine Comedy Rectangle #15 the figures evoke Dante through Hellish red rectangle and Purgatory-ish yellow rectangle while a green rectangle indexes Beatrice through another (color unknown) rectangle incorporating similar rectangles in other works (such as Rectangular Landfills For Sale #63). This presents two distinctly different rectangular groups of (one can assume) beachgoers as a mirror rectangle section disrupting the possibility of determining a fixed meaning in this tape drawing. LG Williams was born in Shaver Lake, California in 1969 and currently lives and works on the road. He received his M.F.A. from the University of California, Davis and B.A. from the Kansas City Art Institute. Williams has taught art, art history and art appreciation courses at the University of California-Davis, University of Southern California, California College of
Category:Art & DesignReads:264Uploaded:05 / 18 / 2011ShareAdd to collectionLG Williams Invited To Participate In The Internet Pavilion For La Biennale Di Venezia 2011 (The Venice Biennial 2011)
PRESS RELEASE – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 10 May 2011 LG WILLIAMS / ESTATE OF LG WILLIAMS TOPANGA CANYON, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA USA I N F O @ L G W I L L I A M S . C O M W W W . L G W I L L I A M S . C O M P. 415-937-1306 STUDIO HOURS BY APPOINTMENT ONLY LG Williams Invited To Participate In The Internet Pavilion For La Biennale Di Venezia 2011 (The Venice Biennial 2011) By Gloria Maria Gallery PR@GloriaMariaGallery.com | 03:29 AM MILAN — The Estate Of LG Williams is pleased to announce that LG WILLIAMS/ESTATE OF LG WILLIAMS, who just ended an Artforum™ reviewed show at Super Window Project in Kyoto, has been invited to participate in THE INTERNET PAVILION FOR LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA 2011 (THE VENICE BIENNIAL 2011). The exhibition will run from June 3 to November 27 in Venice, Italy. "It's an honor to be invited to The Internet Pavilion for La Biennale Di Venezia 2011, and to be amongst the few artist chosen for this prestigious event" said LG Williams, spokesman for the Estate Of LG Williams. "I am grateful to Padiglione Internet BYOB Venezia and Gloria Maria Cappelletti in particular for recognizing my artistic accomplishments and championing them in this most acclaimed international art event." The Venice Biennale (Italian: Biennale di Venezia; also called in English the "Venice Biennial") is considered the world's most important contemporary art exhibition. The first Biennale was held in 1895; since then the event has become more and more international. Currently, countries across the globe are represented through their national pavilions. The Biennale, as the name suggests, takes place once every two years (in odd years). This year, THE INTERNET PAVILION, initiated by Miltos Manetas, will present BYOB an exhibition series created by Rafaël Rozendaal. Exhibition curators include: Margherita Balzerani, Gloria Maria Cappelletti, Caroline Corbetta, Marina Fokidis, Elena Giulia Rossi, Valentina Tanni, Mara Sartore, Yvonne Force Villareal, Doreen Reemen, Jan Aman, Manuel Frara, David Quiles Guilló, Miltos Manetas, Lev Manovich, Angelo Plessas, Rafaël Rozendaal, Domenico Quaranta, Francesco Urbano and Francesco Ragazzi. The pavilion will be located at the Accademia Di Belle Arti New Media Department, on the Island of San Servolo, 10-minute boat ride from Piazza San Marco. # # # # # Please contact Gloria Maria Gallery at PR@GloriaMariaGallery.com for more information. Copyright © 1998-2011 LG WILLIAMS and The Estate of LG WILLIAMS http://www.lgwilliams.com
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