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Recent large scale drawings by William Powhida and Jade Townsend exhibited at Gallery Poulsen in Copenhagen, Denmark from September 28th through October 27th. A print edition of Bellum Omnium Contra Omnes will be available through the artists’ galleries.
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Supreme Digital and Arts in Bushwick have partnered to release a benefit print edition of “Things I Think About When I Think About Bushwick” to support BOS 2012. While I love to hate Bushwick, it has been my home for almost four years now and I’m happy to support the efforts of BOS to pry open artists studios and force them to admit the public. The print is an edition of 40 with 85% of the proceeds going to BOS. My only request was that BOS and Supreme Digital offer an artists honorarium in hopes that small fees might become part of the landscape of benefit requests. More broadly, I hope it becomes part of the discussion for all arts organizations who want to support artists.
To that end, I’m buying one of the prints with my honorarium and will spend the remaining $37 bucks ($150 + tax!) on some beers at Bodega or Ghia or maybe the Narrows. I can never decide. So I hope you’ll support BOS and buy a print that is a little bit of my own Bushwick ambivalence for wherever you art.
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W.A.G.E.: 2010 Artists Survey Results
Presentation and Open Forum
This Friday, April 20, 7pm
Artists Space : Books & Talks
55 Walker Street
58% of artists who exhibited at a New York non-profit organization between 2005 and 2010 received no form of payment, compensation or reimbursement – including the coverage of any expenses.
- 2010 W.A.G.E. Artists Survey
As part of the W.A.G.E. / Artists Space Research Partnership, Working Artists and the Greater Economy will release the 2010 W.A.G.E. Survey results and present their analysis. This survey gathered information from nearly 1000 visual and performing artists about their economic experiences working with non-profit arts organizations and museums in New York City between 2005-2010, and included specific questions about the receipt of artist fees as well as the coverage of expenses for exhibitions, screenings, lectures and performances at over 67 institutions throughout the 5 boroughs. The survey results present a vital and precise portrait of the predominant economic relationships between artists and institutions.
W.A.G.E.’s Research Partnership with Artists Space is based in part on the need to compare such information with the particularities of institutional budgets. Accompanied by Alison Gerber, sociologist and PhD candidate at Yale’s Center for Cultural Sociology, W.A.G.E. will provide a visual presentation of the survey results, followed by a specific comparison of Artists Space’s honoraria payments to artists, speakers and performers between 2005 and 2010, to the existing fee schedule set by CARFAC (Canadian Artists Representation/Front Des Artistes Canadiens). This presentation will also introduce the principles of W.A.G.E. Certification, and the work being done to develop it through the Research Partnership.
Free food by FEAST/Brooklyn and survey posters with artwork by William Powhida will be provided. Survey graphics designed by Common Space.
For more on the W.A.G.E. and Artists Space partnership:
www.artistsspace.org/aspace/programs/w-a-g-e-working-artists-and-the-greater-economy
www.wageforwork.com
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What Can The Art World Teach You, Graphite, colored pencil, and watercolor on paper, 22" x 30", 2012
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What Has The Art World Taught Me?, Graphite, colored pencil, and watercolor on paper, 22" x 30", 2012
Seditions, opens Friday February 25th at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary in Dallas, Texas. I’ve included two new drawings as a point of comparison between the originals and the mechanical reproductions in the show.
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Griftopia. Graphite, watercolor, acrylic ink, and colored pencil on paper. 5’ x 10’. 2011. Courtesy of Postmasters Gallery. Private Collection.
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Composite [Arts Magazine], No. 4 Doppelganger
William Powhida: Infinite Regress, page 9
(Link to the PDF)
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POWHIDA
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My contribution to Colorific: We Make An Art Rainbow opening Friday July 15th at Postmasters Gallery from 6 – 8 pm.
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