Foraging (asphyxia version)
2008
Digital c-print Image
19 1/8 by 18 1/2 in. 48.6 by 47 cm.
The Great White Way, 22 miles, 9 years, 1 street (Whitney version #2)
1990
Video Duration: 6:35 minutes
Cusp
2010
Performance, lumber, soil, sandbags, pajamas, masks, coat rack
Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York
Blink
2011
Performance at Prospect.2, New Orleans
Blink
2011
Performance at Prospect.2, New Orleans
Foraging (Animal Husbandry)
1995-2001
Archival Iris print sheet
35 by 47 in. 88.9 by 119.4 cm.
Black People are Slick
2001-2
Graph paper, bic pen, marker, white-out, and acrylic
11 by 8 1/2 in. 27.9 by 21.6 cm.
Black People are That Movie You Wanted to See but You Got There Too Ate and the Tickets Were Sold Out
2008
Graph paper, bic pen, marker, white-out, and acrylic
11 by 8 1/2 in. 27.9 by 21.6 cm.
Blink
2011
Performance at Prospect.2, New Orleans
Blink
2011
Performance at Prospect.2, New Orleans
Cusp (Kafka Version)
2010
Performance at FIAC, Paris
Blue People are the Niggers of the Atmosphere
2008
Graph paper, bic pen, marker, white-out, and acrylic
11 by 8 1/2 in. 27.9 by 21.6 cm.
Purple People are the Rhyme in the Skyout Exactly Against the Red Against the Blue Against the Black Against the Glass Against the Sun
2006-7
Graph paper, bic pen, marker, white-out, and acrylic
11 by 8 1/2 in. 27.9 by 21.6
Coffin (Flag Box)
2008
Wood construction with printed tape, CD player, speakers, metal handles, casters, vinyl grills, electrical cord and book and wood stack
54 7/8 by 72 1/4 by 44 1/4 in. 139.4 by 183.5 by 112.4 cm.
White People are a Desalination Plant in Puerto Rico
2001
Graph paper, bic pen, marker, white-out, and acrylic
11 by 8 1/2 in. 27.9 by 21.6 cm.
Failure Drawing #33 Red Clouds
2004-06
Ink, black marker, ballpoint pen, acrylic, stains and newspaper collage on joined brown paper
4 3/4 by 9 7/8 in. 12.1 by 25.1 cm.
Failure Drawing #252 Green Sky Red Mountain
2005-06
Ink and colored marker on hotel stationery
5 1/2 by 4 1/4 in. 14 by 10.8 cm.
Keepsake
2008
Printed and torn paper, sweater, thumb tacks and mixed media diptych
55 1/2 by 185 1/2 in. 141 by 471.2 cm., overall
Failure Drawing #386 Worm in Class Circa
2003-08
Ballpoint pen and watercolor on newspaper over card
4 1/2 by 6 5/16 in. 11.4 by 16 cm.
Failure Drawing #361 Rocket Fall, the Night Receives, Pittsburgh
2004
Ballpoint pen on napkin
5 by 5 1/4 in. 12.7 by 13.3 cm.
Failure Drawing #807 Rocket Water, Greyhound Schedule
2004
Ballpoint pen, ink color marker and acrylic on printed paper
4 3/4 by 4 in. 12.1 by 10.2 cm.
Performance Table (with Corbu Popsicle/ Hatchets dipped in black liquid and vaseline)
2009
Photo credit: Shiloh Cinquemani
The Space Between One Mask and Another and Another...
2006
Photo montage
40 by 48 in. 101.6 by 121.9 cm.
Failure Drawing #2 Celebrate
2004-2010
Ink, acrylic, oil stick, ballpoint pen, marker, correction fluid, hair, on children's stationary
13 1/2 by 15 7/8 in. 34.3 by 40.3 cm.
Negro Idea #322
2003
Vinyl on colored pvc
12 by 11 in. 30.5 by 27.9 cm.
Failure Drawing #1198 Landscape with Vegetable
2010
Ballpoint pen, marker, correction fluid, acrylic and push pins on flattened box
17 3/4 by 21 in. 45.1 by 53.3 cm.
Failure Drawing #636 Far Above the Ocean
2009-2010
Ink, acrylic, ballpoint pen, oil stick, marker, correction fluid on map
24 3/4 by 32 in. 62.9 by 81.3 cm.
Loa
1992-2001
Marker, pencil, correction fluid on granite
14 5/8 by 14 5/8 in. 37.1 by 37.1 cm.
Snow Crawl
1992-2001
Wood, mirror, TV. dvd, sandbags
117 by 30 by 30 in. 297.2 by 76.2 by 76.2 cm.
Failure Drawing #1
2004-10
Acrylic, ballpoint pen, oil stick, marker, correction fluid, coffee, paper, cellphone tape, colored pencil on hotel stationery
31 7/8 by 22 in. 81 by 55.9 cm.
Mollusk
2005-09
Acrylic, oil marker, ink, masking tape, gel medium, cellphone tape on photograph
60 by 36 in. 152.4 by 91.4 cm.
Born 1955, Newark, NJ.
Lives and works in Chicago, IL.
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Beginning in th elate '90s, Wiliam Pope.L famously crawled along 22 miles of sidewalk, from the beginning to the end of Broadway - Manhattan's longest street - wearing a capeless Superman outfit with a skateboard strapped to his back.
Download PDFWhen curator Dan Cameron inaugurated Prospect New Orleans in 2008, billed as the largest international biennial in the United States it was an act not merely of post-Hurricane Katrina revitalization but of civic reinvention. Though it received virtually no funding from depleted state or city offers, Prospect 1 generated a great deal of curiosity, goodwill, and private patronage and brought contemporary art to the city in an unprecedented way.
Download PDFIn 1961, the artist Allan Kaprow, who coined the term happenings, created an installation in a small open-air courtyard behind the Martha Jackson Gallery at 32 East 69th Street. He wrapped several sculptures already there — a Giacometti and a Barbara Hepworth — in protective tar paper, then filled the space with hundreds of old automobile tires, tossing them around to make piles that visitors were invited to climb.
Download PDFWilliam Pope.L, who may well be the best underknown artist around, has long been doing amazing work at the frayed edges where the art world meets Wall Street and the inner city. He is best known for his performances, which have included eating and regurgitating copies of the Wall Street Journal, and crawling on his belly like a worm.
Download PDFPope.L lines the gallery with more than a hundred small drawings made in transit since 2003—on airplane napkins, newspaper photographs, hotel stationery, a Howard Johnson's shoe mitt, and so on. The images tend toward the humorously sexual, with plenty of bespectacled worms, volcanoes, and explosions.
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