"A man, his determined features suggesting a taciturn cartoon hero, glances into an adjoining room through an opening cut into what is presumably a door. So as to be able to do so he somewhat awkwardly holds open a shutter with the index finger of his right . awkwardly, because this shutter, swivelling around a pin at the apex of the opening, is on the other side, that is, on the viewer's side of the door. Moving it must have required some pushing and poking, and the raised finger now intersects the character's field of vision. In a speech bubble we read words that also form the tide of the piece: I CAN SEE THE WHOLE ROOM!...AND THERE'S NO ART IN IT!"

The real and fictional works of American artist LG Williams/The Estate of LG Williams(TM) defy categorization, and satirizes the very art world the artist inhabits. He trademarked his name, and the name of his "estate," before he is even a brand - or dead. Williams likes to poke fun at artists, collectors, dealers, galleries, curators, and museums, or anyone or anything that profits from the art business, and put them to the test to see what happens. The only risk is the artist himself relies on the same superstructure to get his message out, and this inherent paradox makes his anti-art art intriguing. Through clever installations and tongue-in-cheek sloganing, Williams questions the authenticity of contemporary art with a Houellebecqian viewpoint: that in a capitalistic system there are inevitably winners and losers - but Williams does it with more charm than the novelist.

LG Williams/Estate of LG Williams(TM) AnthologyGloria Maria Gallery Via Watt 32, 20143 Milan 14/11-21/12 2012(in collaboration with Super Window Project)

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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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