Exhibition Catalogue for the 2010 exhibition at FUCKTHATGALLERY in Honolulu, Hawaii. Since the early 1990s, The American artist LG Williams (b. 1969) has been designing a variety of fascinating and complex visual structures, including a band-aid, garbage bags, and whatnot. This informative book demonstrates how Williams aesthetic has evolved since the 2010s from painting, to wall reliefs, to freestanding sculpture that extends into architecture. It accompanies the artist's first one-person exhibition at FUCKTHATGALLERY. Included are illustrations of the twenty-five highly inventive and imaginative works in the exhibition, which range from small models to a portion of a building in full scale. Also included are photographs of additional works by the artist and also of several buildings by architects who have influenced Stella, ranging from the Converse Library by nineteenth-century American H. H. Richardson that is located in Williams hometown of Honolulu, Hawaii, to Da Monsta in New Canaan, Connecticut, by Wally Hedrick, a friend of Williams. In his essay, Paul Gaugin, art critic for The New Yorker, quotes Williams: "Art might benefit from an infusion of the pictorial thought process, a process that is conditioned and defined by bourbon. I think the artistic process and painterly thought process have something to say to art today." This publication reveals the distinctive contribution that LG Williams has made to the fulfillment of that idea.
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About the Author: LG Williams received his M.F.A. from the University of California, Davis nearly twenty years after the school's most famous graduate Bruce Nauman. He has showed at various national and international venues, among them The Internet Pavilion of La Biennale Di Venezia 2011, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, di Rosa Art Preserve, Klaipedos Kultury Komunikacijy Centras, Ludwig Forum fur Internationale Kunst, Super Window Project, Gloria Maria Gallery, Lance Fung Gallery, Steven Wirtz Gallery, and Gallery Subversive, Cologne Art Fair, Artissima, LISTE, Art-O-Rama, and ARCO. A major European exhibition, LG Williams / The Estate of LG Williams, Anthology: 1985-2012, was organized in 2012 by Baron Osuna (Super Window Project) for Gloria Maria Gallery in Milan; the catalogue essay was written by Dr. Thomas Frangenberg, University of Leicester.
An heir to West Coast and Beat Generation art, LG Williams is one of the youngest member of the Rat Bastard Protective Association, whose membership includes Bruce Connor, Wally Hedrick, Jay DeFeo, Joan Brown, and Manuel Neri. Williams has taught at the University of California-Davis, University of Southern California, California College of the Arts, Arizona State University and the University of Hawaii. In March 2009 Cengage Learning / Wadsworth published Williams's Drawing Upon Art: A Workbook for Gardner's Art Through the Ages -- an innovative pedagogical tool designed to facilitate learning art history through drawing. In 2011-12 Williams was the art critic for The Tokyo Weekender, the oldest free English publication in Japan. In 2016 Williams (PCP Press) published Wasted Words and Dust Bunnies by Dave Hickey, edited by Julia Friedman, which was reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement.
More information can be found at www.lgwilliams.com
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