Bill by Bill - Charlie James Gallery

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Charlie James Gallery is delighted to present William Powhida in his
second solo show at the gallery titled Bill By Bill. The show poses as
both a survey of recent neo-formalist trends and an inquiry into the ways
in which we derive value art in the contemporary art market. For the show
Powhida had a series of objects fabricated according to different formal
strategies while painting unique certificates that accompany each object.
The ‘certificate’ paintings offer humorous and critical reflections
on the values of these resurgent neo-formalist tropes; process,
materiality, and abstraction through the common practice of fabrication.
Several other text-based works in the show further Powhida’s inquiry
into the competing, sometimes paradoxical criteria for evaluating and
understanding contemporary art.
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Dismissed Acclaimed provincial New York-based artist William Powhida is pleased to announce Bill by Bill,
a new collection of art works fabricated exclusively for Charlie James Gallery and the fast-growing Los
Angeles art market. Conceptualized and designed by William each work of art has been crafted by better
highly skilled artists, designers, friends, family and fabricators under the artist’s supervision in a
studio he visited at least once. After years of going to art fairs intensive market research Bill by Bill
represents a decisive breakthrough for the artist into the fields of sculpture and painting by creating
unique variations on some of the dominant formulas trends in contemporary art.
Bill by Bill brings together classic Modernist forms with bleeding edge post-studio, conceptually
based1 practices to create a mercenary stunning vision of contemporary art. Begun over a year ago while
on residency at the Headlands in beautiful Marin County, William has designed a line of auction-ready
commodities objects across stylistic boundaries for market-savvy executive producers collectors. These
objects are primed and ready for purchase to move quickly at Phillips de Pury. With a focus on painting
and sculpture Bill by Bill avoids problems of reproducibility inherent with photography, new media,
multiples, and editions which have diminished the deep satisfaction of buying art. These one-of-kind
objects are able to offer the ‘experience of art’ at a price that isn’t quite for everyone, which affirms
William’s belief that art holds an elitist special place in culture.
A unique, signed certificate of authenticity in the artist’s signature style accompanies2 each handtouched3 object. The certificate provides the artist’s critical insight into the fascinating design and
fabrication process behind each work. These intimate, text-based certificates contextualize each object
in a theoretical and aesthetic discourse while situating them in the broader social and political space
of neo-liberal capitalism late modernity. Charlie James Gallery is relieved pleased to finally bring this
moyen-garde model of art production and distribution to Los Angeles, which we believe is the only city
capable of buying this.
William Powhida was born in 1976 in Ballston Spa, New York. Powhida has no upcoming exhibitions at any
major art institutions. Recent exhibitions include “Market Value: Examining Wealth and Worth” at Columbia
College in Chicago, IL; “On Sincerity” at Boston College in Boston, MA; (2012), “Seditions” at McKinney
Avenue Contemporary in Dallas, TX (2012), “Derivatives” at Postmasters Gallery, NY (2011) and Dublin
Contemporary in Dublin, Ireland (2011). His work has been discussed in October, Art in America, Art Forum,
The Brooklyn Rail, Frieze, New York Magazine, and the New York Times. His art was recently featured in the
Village Voice, America’s oldest corporate-owned alternative weekly.
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1
This does not mean conceptual.
2
The collector agrees to purchase the certificate of authenticity to receive the object.
3
The artist may have only touched to the work indirectly receiving the work or crating it.
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Culture Monster
ALL THE ARTS, ALL THE TIME
Review: William Powhida wryly eyes the business of art
By Holly Myers | April 25, 2013
So rare is good satire in contemporary art that its appearance — as in the newest
exhibition of William Powhida, a New York-based artist who is fast evolving into
one of its sharpest practitioners — makes one inclined to stand up and applaud.
The show, called “Bill by Bill,” at Charlie James Gallery, combines the motif that
has become Powhida’s trademark — the trompe l’oeil painting of a sheet of paper
covered in handwritten notes — with a series of artworks conceived on the basis of
unspoken but eminently recognizable formulas.
William Powhida’s “Bill by Bill” as installed at Charlie James Gallery. (The
artist and Charlie James Gallery)
mock. At a glance, it all reads as your typical group show.
There’s “Informal Materialism” (a chunk of scrap wood and a sheet of paintstained canvas); “Asset Class Painting” (a trio of blurry, colorful abstractions); “A
Taxonomy of Forms on a Shelf” (a cube, a sphere and other glazed ceramic objects
lined up in a row); “A Hypothetical Word or Phrase in Neon” (simplified, perhaps
for ease of fabrication, into an underscore or strike-through mark); and, what may
be my favorite, “A Taxidermied Animal in a Box,” which is just what it implies,
complete with foam peanuts.
The works themselves are not slapdash cracks but dutifully, even earnestly
constructed objects, largely indistinguishable from the classes of works that they
The real pleasure lies in the trompe l’oeil notes that Powhida pairs with each work, which detail the concept, process and cost involved in language
that playfully derides the absurdity of each of these tropes while occasionally exposing the darker economic conditions underlying them.
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ALL THE ARTS, ALL THE TIME
Review: William Powhida wryly eyes the business of art
By Holly Myers | April 25, 2013
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Of “DIY Informalism,” a clumsy mélange of bent-up stretcher bars and torn, paint-dripped canvas, Powhida writes: “Idea: To play around with some
studio junk and stuff from the hardware store to make a few awkward objects without thinking intuitively with feeling!” (In a gratifying sidebar,
Powhida alludes to the Hammer Museum’s recent biennial, which was loaded with just this sort of work.)
Of “Post minimalism,” a row of tall, slickly finished sculptural columns based on economic statistics, he notes: “Idea: Have the fabricator make some
bar graphs into ‘purely’ formal objects. Then apply some Kantian aesthetic logic and separate strip the content from the forms. Income inequality is
too political and depressing.”
What saves the work from grating sarcasm or smart aleck cleverness — toward which the artist has erred in the past — is a curious undertone of
sincerity. Powhida is not mean-spirited or bitter but seems genuinely driven to understand his subject: the internal mechanisms of this peculiar social
and economic ecosystem. How does the art world work and how should we feel about that? How much of ourselves should we reconcile to it?
He clearly takes these questions seriously. If he didn’t, his excoriation wouldn’t be nearly so funny.
Charlie James Gallery, 969 Chung King Road, Los Angeles, (213) 687-0844, through June 8. Closed Sundays through Tuesdays. www.
cjamesgallery.com
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Press
Release
Graphite and
watercolor on
paper.
19 x 15 inches
2013
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A Post Minimalism
Installation of panel painting and three column sculptures on wood base.
Panel: Graphite and watercolor on panel
19 x 15 inches
2013
Three columns on base: Acrylic on MDF
72 x 36 x 12 inches
2013
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A Neo-Modernism
Installation of panel painting and sculpture.
Sculpture: Wood, plexiglass and acrylic
49 x 49 inches
2013
Panel: Graphite and watercolor
19 x 15 inches.
2013
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Some Shiny Objects
Installation of panel painting and mirror / steel floor sculpture.
Mirror/steel sculpture: Mirror, nickel-plated
drywall studs
48 x 48 x 30 inches
2013
Panel: Graphite and watercolor
19 x 15 inches.
2013
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Some Asset Class (Digital) Paintings – Color Fields
Installation of panel painting and three stretched abstract prints.
Stretched prints on canvas: Archival pigment
prints, canvas, stretcher bars.
Central 72 x 38 inches
Left: 72 x 30 inches
Right: 72 x 30 inches
2013
Panel: Graphite and watercolor
19 x 15 inches.
2013
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A Taxidermied Animal
Installation of panel painting and crated stuffed coyote.
Panel: Graphite and watercolor
19 x 15 inches.
2013
Crate and Coyote: Wood crate, coyote, pink
packing peanuts
19 x 65 x 27.5 inches
2013
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A Hypothetical Word or Phrase in Neon
Installation of panel painting and neon.
Panel: Graphite and watercolor
19 x 15 inches.
2013
Neon: Pink neon line
.5 x 48 x 2 inches
2013
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What Kind of
Art Is That?
Graphite and
watercolor on
paper.
22 x 15 inches
2013
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Bill by Bill at Charlie James Gallery
Main Gallery
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What Can We Learn About Art?
Installation of 4 panel paintings.
Each Panel: Graphite and watercolor
19 x 15 inches.
2013
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A Taxonomy of Objects on a Shelf
Installation of panel painting and ceramic objects on shelf.
Objects on shelf: Ceramic and lustre glaze on
shelf
9 x 31 x 9 inches
2013
Panel: Graphite and watercolor
19 x 15 inches.
2013
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An Informal Materialism (with Free Wood and Rectangles)
Installation of panel painting, found wooden object and unstretched painted dropcloth.
Panel: Graphite and watercolor
19 x 15 inches.
2013
Found wooden object and primer – 8 x
2.75 x 31 inches.
Dropcloth and black acrylic – 75 x 41
inches.
2013
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A (really bad, bad) Neo-Expressionist Painting
Installation of panel painting and acrylic on linen neo-expressionist painting.
Panel: Graphite and watercolor
19 x 15 inches.
2013
Painting: Acrylic on linen
58 x 44 inches
2013
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Some
Criteria For
Evaluation
Graphite and
watercolor on
paper.
22 x 15 inches
2013
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Rear Gallery
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Some DIY Informalism
Installation of panel painting and 3 abstract paintings.
Stretcher bar painting: Acrylic and enamel on
canvas, exposed stretcher bars
47 x 50 inches
2013
Panel: Graphite and watercolor
19 x 15 inches.
2013
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Some DIY Informalism (cont.)
Installation of panel painting and 3 abstract paintings.
Painted tower: Acrylic on canvas
39 x 12 x 3.5 inches
2013
Shaped canvas painting: Acrylic on canvas
51 ½ x 51 inches
2013
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Basement
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A Geometric Hard-Edge ‘Abstract’ shapes in a flat
pictorial plane
Installation of panel painting and hard-edge painting.
Panel: Graphite and watercolor
19 x 15 inches.
2013
Painting: Acrylic on linen
58 x 44 inches
2013
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Education
-Hunter College, New York, New York, M.F.A. Painting,
January 2002
-Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, B.F.A. Painting
with Honors, May 1998
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2013 Bill by Bill, Charlie James Gallery, LA
2012 Bellum Omnium Contra Omnes, Gallery Poulsen,
Copenhagen, Denmark; Solo exhibition in collaboration with Jade Townsend
Seditions, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas
Selected Works on Paper, Lycoming College, Williamsport, PA
2011 Derivatives, Postmasters, New York
POWHIDA, Marlborough Gallery, New York
2009 The Writing is on the Wall, Schroeder Romero, New York
No One Here Gets Out Alive, Charlie James Gallery, LA
2008 Sell Out! The Bastard Tour, Platform Gallery, Seattle,
WA
2007 This is a Work of Fiction…., Schroeder Romero, New
York
A Study for Sofia Coppola’s Film ‘Powhida’, Haines
Gallery, San Francisco
2006 Year_06 with Schroeder Romero Gallery, London, UK
Paper Beings, Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA
Joint Manifesto, Plus Ultra/Schroeder Romero Project Space, NY, NY
Everyone!, Dam Stuhltrager Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2004* Persona, Dam Stuhltrager Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2013 Three Person Show, Freight & Volume, NY (summer)
Momenta Benefit, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY (May)
Pyramid Show, English Kills Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Market Value: Examining Wealth and Worth, Columbia
College, IL
2012 On Sincerity, 808 Gallery, Boston University, MA
Smack Mellon Benefit, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
Late Summer Show, Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Summer Babe, Heavy Refuge, Brooklyn, NY
Open House, Headlands Center for the Arts, CA
Ghost Face, Bobby Redd Project Space, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Terrible Beauty: Art, Crises, Change & The Office
of Non-Compliance, Dublin Contemporary, Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin, Ireland
Hiding Places: Memory in the Arts, Kohler Arts
Center, Sheboygan, WI
Colorific, Postmasters Gallery, NY
Microwave 8, Josee Bienvenu Gallery, NY
LOL: A decade of antic art, The Baltimore
Contemporary, Baltimore
Art on Art, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, NY
If These Walls Could Talk: A Conversation, Charlie
James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Marine, Santa
Monica, CA
I Like the Art World and the Art World Likes Me, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Project Space,
New York, NY
Readykeulous: The Hurtful Healer, Invisible
Exports, New York, NY
2010 Dirty Kunst, Seventeen Gallery, London, UK, curated by Christian Viveros-Faune
Run and Tell That! New Work from New York,
Syracuse University Art Galleries, Syracuse, NY
Art on Paper 2010: The 41st Exhibition,
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
Magicality, Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA,
organized by William Powhida and Erik Trosko
The Irascible Assholes: New Paintings From New
York, Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Trashed, Bystander Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
#class, Winkleman Gallery, New York, organized by
Jennifer Dalton and William Powhida
Two Degrees of Separation, Mandeville Gallery,
Union College, Schenectady, NY, curated by Rachel
Seligman
MirrorMirror, Postmasters, New York
Escape from New York, curated by Olympia Lambert,
Paterson, NJ
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2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
Press Art: from the collection of Annette and Peter
Nobel, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
Note to Self, Schroeder Romero, New York
The Making of Art: The Art World and its Players,
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany,
curated by Martina Weinhart, catalog
Mixing It Up: Recent Hunter MFAs Working in Combined Media, Bertha and Karl
Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College, New York
I Want You To Want Me, Marx & Zavattero, San Francisco
Contemporary Art and Portraiture, Cristin Tierney Fine
Art Advisory Services, New York
Summer Solistice, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island
City, NY (collaboration)
Laugh it Off, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles,
curated by Jane Scott
Funny Games, LOF (Load of Fun) Studios, Baltimore,
curated by Jamillah James
CAUCUS, Schroeder Romero, New York
Air Kissing: An Exhibition of Contemporary Art About the Art World, Arcadia University Art Gallery,
Glenside, PA. Curated by Sasha Archibald
Found, Voorkamer Home, Lier, Belgium
SLOW, Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth, UK
New American Story Art, eyewash@Croxhapox Gallery,
Ghent, Belgium
Air Kissing: An Exhibition of Contemporary Art About
the Art World, Momenta, Art, Brooklyn, NY, curated by
Sasha Archibald
Word, Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA
Americana, Galeria Arteveintiuno, Madrid, Spain
The Matthew Barney Show, SFBOCA, San Francisco, CA
Pulse with Schroeder Romero, NY, NY
Leave New York, Sweet Home Gallery, NY, NY
Aqua Art Miami with Platform Gallery, Miami, FL
ScopeMiami with Dam Stuhltrager Gallery, Miami, FL
Wagmag Benefit, Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Sasquatch Society, sixtyseven Gallery, NY, NY
IAM 5, Parker’s Box, Brooklyn, NY
Momenta Benefit, White Columns Gallery, New York, NY
2004 Art of the Neighborhood, Tastes Like Chicken Gallery, Brooklyn,NY
Paperwork, Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA
Enchantment, Artspace, New Haven, CT
The Ballot Show, Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
New American Story Art Video and Performance,
Eyewash Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Persona, Dam Stuhltrager Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Jamaica Flux: Workspace and Windows, JCAL, Queens,
NY
Jumble, Dam Stuhltrager Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2003 Dirty Old Toy Box Video Screening, Fluxcore
Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Drawing Conclusions: Work by Artist-Critics,
NYArts, New York, NY
All messed up with nowhere to go, Dam Stuhltrager Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2002 Cooper Union Summer Residency Exhibition, Cooper Union, NY, NY
Reclamation, MFA Thesis Show, Hunter College Times
Square Gallery, NY, NY
1998 Projection, BFA Thesis Show, The Drawing Room
Gallery, Syracuse University, NY
Selected Bibliography/Interviews
Sutton, Benjamin. “Curators Kyle Chayka and Marina
Galperina Bring the Vanguard of Vine to the Moving
Image”. BlouinArtinfo. March 17, 2013.
Vidokle, Anton. “Art without Market, Art without
Education: Political Economy of Art” E-Flux, 2013.
(publication)
Cohn, Hana. “50 Most Iconic Works of the Past Five
Years”. Jan 8, 2013
Brand, Will. “SEVEN: The Fair We Enjoy” Artfcity,
December 8, 2012
Gilsdorf, Bean. “Art and Vexation: Interview with
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William Powhida”. Daily Serving. Nov 7, 2012
and Myth” Hyperallergic, April 28, 2012
Halperin, Julia. “In New Drawing, William Powhida Responds
to Jerry Saltz’s Advice for Artists”. BlouinArtinfo, October
10, 2012
Silva, Mariana. “William Powhida”, E-Codigo, Feb-Mar,
2012
Editors. “The 100 Most Iconic Art Works of the Last 5
Years”. Blouin ArtInfo, Sept 17th, 2012
Apter, Emily. “Occupy Derivatives!/ Politics ‘smallest p’”.
October, Fall 2012
Dempsey, Dean. “Pretty Pictures with William Powhida”
SFAQ, Dec 29,2011
Miranda, Carolina A. “Biting The Hand That Feeds Them”,
Art News, Dec, 2011
Sutton, Benjamin. “CNN Commissioned Election-Themed Art From
Liz Magic Laser, William Powhida, And More” BlouinArtinfo,
August 23, 2012
Chayka, Kyle. Alanna Martinez, “8 New York Art Picks for
This Week, From Urs Fischer’s Mystery Show to William
Powhida’s “Derivatives”,” Artinfo, October 19, 2011
Alday, Sean. “Notes from the 1%”. Bushwick Daily, June 12,
2012
“Show & Tell: William Powhida Takes on the Plutocracy at
Postmasters Gallery,” In The Air, Art+Aucion, Artinfo,
October 10, 2011
Cooper, Ashton. ““There May Be Dancing”: William Powhida on
Tomorrow’s “Telethon for the 1 Percent” BlouinArtinfo. June
8, 2012
Fox, Dan. “Changing Places”, Frieze, Summer, 2012
Powhida, William. “Why Are (Most) Artists (So Fucking)
Poor?” Hyperallergic, April 13, 2012.
Kimball, Whitney. “Village Voice Critics Address Art and
Protest” Artfcity, March 20, 2012
Parrish, Matthew. “William Powhida at Lycoming College”
SunGazette, March 18, 2012.
Hearst, Alison. “William Powhida: Seditions” Pastelegram,
March 16th, 2012
Van Horn, Rachael. “Artfully Stated”, Arts & Culture North
TX, March 15th, 2012
Micchelli, Thomas. “Pie in the Sky When You Die: Art, Money
Johnson, Ken. “’POWHIDA’,” The New York Times, August 4,
2011
Cooper, Ashton. “Artist William Powhida Discusses the
Outrageous Misbehavior That Notorious Art-World Wastrel,
William Powhida,” Artinfo, August 1, 2011
Gopnik, Blake. “An Artist Turns Us All Into Puppets,”
Newsweek Daily Beast, July 28, 2011
Droitcour, Brian. “William, It Was really Nothing,”
Artforum, August 1, 2011
Finch, Charlie. “William Powhida Useless Tool,” artnet.
com, August 3, 2011
Powhida, William. “Dispatch from Sheboygan: Week Three,”
Hyperallergic, July 30, 2011
Chayka, Kyle. “The Joke Is On Whom?: Looking for the
Punchline in William Powhida’s Burlesque of Art Stardom
at Marlborough Gallery,” Artinfo, July 28, 2011
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Nathan, Emily. “New Art Gallery Ramble,” Artnet.com July 28,
2011
“Art, #class Interview with William Powhida and
Jennifer Dalton”, Idiom.com, July 13, 2010
Vartanian, Hrag. “POWHIDA Is a VIP Douchebag,”
Hyperallergic, July 28, 2011
Graves, Jen.
2010
Wallin, Yasha. “William Powhida and the Art of Social
Commentary,” Flavorpill, July 27, 2011
Falvey, Emily. “All That Glitters Isn’t Gold:Kitsch,
Bling-bling, and Bullshit”, ESSE arts + opinions,
Spring / Summer, 2010
Powhida, William “Dispatch from Sheboygan: Week Two,”
Hyperallergic, July 22, 2011
Powhida, William. “Dispatch From Sheboygan: On Memory,”
Hyperallergic, July 15, 2011
Hirsh, Faye. “The Everyone Artwork”, Art In America, May,
2011
Bhatnagar, Priya. “I like the Art World and the Art World
Likes Me”, Frieze, May 2011
Kalm, James. “Brooklyn Dispatches: ‘B’ Fair To Brooklyn”,
Brooklyn Rail, May, 2011
Moret, A. “If These Walls Could Talk”, Whitehot Magazine of
Contemporary Art, April 2011
Panero, James. “Gallery Chronicle”, New Criterion, February
2011
Salmon, Felix. “A Guide To The Market Oligopoly System”,
Reuters, December 28, 2010
O’Reilly, Sally. “Dirty Kunst”, Time Out London, December
22, 2010
Hanley, Kirk Sarah. “Ink|Notes from the Underground: William
Powhida” Art21.org. December 4, 2010
Saltz, Jerry. “The Year in Art”, nymag.com, December 5, 2010
“Magical Thinking”, The Stranger, July 6,
Cotter, Holland. “Art in Review: ‘#class’”, The New
York Times, March 19, 2010
Haber, John. “Cutting Class”, Haberarts.com, March 11,
2010
Lindholm, Erin. “New York’s Satellite Fairs: Bling,
String, and Subversive Things”, Artinamerica.com, March
10, 2010
“SHOW REVIEWED: #class at Winkleman Gallery, NYC”,
Onereviewamonth.com, February 28, 2010
Diaz, Eva. “Critic’s Picks”, Artforum.com, February 28,
2010
Robinson, Walter. “Art Show as Think Tank”, Artnet.com,
February 18, 2010
Lindholm, Erin. “The Art of the Crowd”,
Artinamericamagazine.com, February 16, 2010
“New Museum Suicide Drawing Can Be Yours”, Artinfo.com,
January 15, 2010
Jackson, Candace. “#class Exhibit Challenges New
Museum Show”, The Wall Street Journal, January 1, 2010
Davis, Ben. “Ten Stories for 2009, artnet.com,
December 28, 2009
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Kaplan, Steven. “William Powhida in A Tale of Three
Covers”, post.thing.net, December 26, 2009
Farr, Kristin. “Ode to CheapTrick: Art Review ‘I Want
You to Want Me’”, KQEDArts.org, April 26, 2009
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Best Art of 2009, nymag.com, December 20, 2009
Rowan, Lou (ed.). Golden Handcuffs Review, SpringSummer 2009, Vol. I, No. 11, pp. 81-86 (the artwork
“How To Write a Masterpiece” reproduced)
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“Lost in Miami”, artnet.com, December 11, 2009
Cave, Damien. “Tweaking the Big-Money Art World on Its Own
Turf”, The New York Times, December 6, 2009, pp. C1, C6
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Charlie James”, artforum.com, November 2009
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James Gallery”, Los Angeles Times, November 13, 2009
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Supernova”, artnet.com, November 12, 2009
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‘suicide’”, Modern Art Notes, November 3, 2009
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“SchroRoWinkleFeuerBooneWildenRosenGosianGallery”,
jameswagner.com, May 14, 2009
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Writing is on the Wall’”, The New York Times, Friday, May 8,
2009
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The New York Times online, March 24, 2009
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six works, Fall 2008
Bancroft, Shelly and Peter Nesbett.
paper, May 2008, p. 10
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World; Momenta Art”, Art Review, February 2008
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Miami Beach Edition, Weekend, 8/9 December 2007
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Romero”, Art in America, October 2007, p. 204
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Fiction’”, The Brooklyn Rail, June 2007, p. 34
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ArtFagCity.com, Thursday, April 16, 2009
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the Line’ illustrates the dark and stormy dangers of
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incompetent minds”, Montreal Mirror, May 17 2007
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Sort of.”, nymag.com, May 11 2007
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#8, July 17th, 2006
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30, 2006
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– 11th. 2006
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Miller”, www.platformgallery.com, 2006
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2005
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Dec 9th – 15th, 2004
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‘Paperwork’,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, December 3rd, 2004
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Please Stand up,” November/December 2004, Vol. 9, No. 11/12
Performances and Lectures
2011 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign School of the
Museum of Fine Arts American University
2010 Syracuse University
Awards
2011
2002
1998 1998
1997
Surviving the Art World Using the Art of
Sorcery, Hyperallergic, Brooklyn, NY
Kohler Arts Center Residency
Cooper Union Summer Studio Residency
3rd Place Salt Hill First Annual Hypertext
Competition (Publication)
Hiram Gee Senior Painting Award (Financial)
Roswell Hill Junior Painting Award (Financial)
Collections
Whitney Museum of American Art
Selected Criticism
2006 “Cabin Comforts”, The Brooklyn Rail, July/August
“Jennifer and Kevin McCoy”, The Brooklyn Rail,
April
“Pre-Occupation”, The Brooklyn Rail, April
“Urban Landscapes”, WAGMAG, May
“Ten New Paintings”, The Brooklyn Rail, February
2005 “Manufactured Landscapes: The photographs of
Edward Burtansky,” The Brooklyn Rail, Nov
“Enemy Image,” The Brooklyn Rail, September
“Jon Paul Villegas,” The Brooklyn Rail,
September
“Cai Guo-Qiang,” The Brooklyn Rail, June
“Under The Rainbow,” The Brooklyn Rail, June
“Eric Heist,” The Brooklyn Rail, May
“Jules DeBalincourt,” The Brooklyn Rail, April
“Tim Hawkinson at The Whitney Museum of American
Art,” The Brooklyn Rail, March
“Jonathan Schipper and Simon Lee,” The Brooklyn
Rail, March
“Thomas Lendvi,” The Brooklyn Rail, February
“Kerry James Marshall: One True Thing,” The
Brooklyn Rail, December/January
2004 “Total Environment,” The Antiquer, October
“Seeing Others,” Marianne Boesky Gallery, The
Brooklyn Rail, September
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2003
“WMD,” Front Room Gallery, The Brooklyn Rail, July/
August
“Two enter and one leaves at YEAR,” The Brooklyn Rail,
June
“Open House at BMA,” The Antiquer, June
“MoMA at El Museo,” The Antiquer, May
“Indigestable Correctness Parts I & II,” The Brooklyn
Rail, May
“Abigail Lazkoz and Francisco Lopez at Momenta Art,”
The Brooklyn Rail, April
“Paradise Now at The Asia Society,” The Brooklyn Rail,
April
“Creative Time,” The Antiquer, April
“Olaf Breuning at Metro Pictures,” The Brooklyn Rail
“Crossing the Channel at The Met,” The Antiquer,
February
“Uses of Americana in Contemporary Art,” The Antiquer, January
“Guy Richards Smit at Satellite®,” The Brooklyn Rail,
December/January
“David Opdyke at Roebling Hall,” The Brooklyn Rail,
December/January
“Patrick Martinez at Parker’s Box,” The Brooklyn Rail,
December/January
“Jason Middlebrook,” The Brooklyn Rail, November
“One on one,” The Brooklyn Rail, November
“Religious Desire,” artnet.com
“Jim Shaw at Metro Pictures,” The Brooklyn Rail,
October
“The American Effect,” CIRCA, September
“Outpost,” The Brooklyn Rail, August-September
“Focus Group,” The Brooklyn Rail, August-September
“Exit Art Biennial,” The Brooklyn Rail, June-July
“Grounds,” The Brooklyn Rail, June-July
“Clutter and Clarity,” artnet.com
“Harriet Shorr,” The Brooklyn Rail, April-May
“Global Priority,” The Brooklyn Rail, AprilMay
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