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Bellum Omnium Contra Omnes, William Powhida and Jade Townsend, Graphite on paper, 9' x 5', 2012.
A War of All Against All, William Powhida and Jade Townsend, Graphite on vellum, 9' x 5', 2012
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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16" x 20", Pigmented Print on Hot Press 330 gsm paper by Supreme Digital
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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Graphite on paper, 15" x 22", 2012. Courtesy of the artist and W.A.G.E.
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
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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Derivatives, open through November 26th at Postmasters Gallery.
Graphite, watercolor, and colored pencil on paper, 2011, Courtesy of Postmasters Gallery
Graphite, watercolor, and colored pencil on paper, 2011. Courtesy of Postmasters Gallery.
Graphite, watercolor, and colored pencil on paper, 2011. Courtesy of Postmasters Gallery
Graphite, watercolor, and colored pencil on paper, 2011. Courtesy of Postmasters Gallery
Watercolor, acrylic ink, and colored pencil on panel, 2011. Courtesy of Postmasters Gallery.
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Photo credit: Craig Platt
Composite [Arts Magazine], No. 4 Doppelganger
William Powhida: Infinite Regress, page 9
(Link to the PDF)
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POWHIDA opening Wednesday July 27th at Marlborough Chelsea, 6 - 8 pm
POWHIDA
Marlborough Chelsea / July 27-August 12, 2011
The directors of Marlborough Chelsea are pleased to announce POWHIDA, a site-specific project by
the eponymous artist opening Wednesday, July 27th. The exhibition will be on view through August
12th.
Utilizing the entire ground floor gallery, POWHIDA is the artist’s most ambitious installation to date.
In keeping with his oeuvre, Powhida has taken his relationship with the art world as the very subject
of the exhibition, employing numerous historical departure points and creating a vast conceptual
spectrum reflected in the diversity of the artist’s approaches to making art. These references span from
the 19th-century French Romantic painters Delacroix and Gericault to participatory performance that
de-materializes the object.
Like the artist himself, POWHIDA explores an array of contemporary socio-political and cultural
issues germane to the artist’s role in society. In the vein of Arthur Dove’s The Critic, 1925, and Ad
Reinhardt’s sardonic How to Look at Modern Art in America, 1946, POWHIDA unabashedly turns a
mirror on the idiosyncratic machinations of the industry, allowing an established international artist to
look at his role from the inside out.
The artist’s reverence for Duchamp and Warhol is central to understanding POWHIDA as an
installation of non-traditional art objects throughout the gallery; these objects signify a contextual
shift from the merely functional to the purposely artistic. To signal this shift, the artist himself will
be physically present in the gallery operating as an autonomous artwork to further engage the viewer,
building on the exhaustive performances pioneered by Vito Acconci, Stuart Brisely, and Marina
Abramovic.
The artist and objects themselves are the very means with which POWHIDA will coalesce into a
divergent, yet coterminous installation immersing the viewer in a manner similar to Oldenburg’s The
Store, 1961-62, the experiential amalgamations of Jason Rhoades, and more recently, Black Acid Co-Op,
the functional meth lab created by Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe installed at Deitch Projects, New
York in 2009. While these installations required significant material alterations, POWHIDA strips the
Gallery to its essence, laying it bare.
In the artist’s words, “The gallery is a world unto itself, a social space with a highly codified set of
relationships having the formal beauty of a ballet. I will transform it, literally, choreographing each
movement, each gesture with every interaction. No two viewers will have a similar experience in the
gallery if I can help it. They may never see an art gallery the same way again.”
POWHIDA is generously supported by Flavorpill, The Mondrian Soho and Pernod-Absinthe. A fully
illustrated digital catalogue will be available at the time of the exhibition.
Marlborough Chelsea / International Public Art Ltd., 545 West 25th St, New York, NY 10001 t. 212.463.8634 f. 212.463.9658 chelsea@marlboroughgallery.com
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Legal Shit, 18” x 24”, Graphite and watercolor on panel, 2011. Courtesy of Postmasters Gallery.
My contribution to Colorific: We Make An Art Rainbow opening Friday July 15th at Postmasters Gallery from 6 – 8 pm.
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