Pope L Studio

107 suffolk st 312 new york ny 10002 co organized by the grey art gallery nyu.

Pope l studio. Pope l at the studio museum in harlem radical presence. Black performance in contemporary art november 14 march 9 2013. Black performance in contemporary art chronicles the emergence and development. The studio museum in harlem.

Pope l is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including the bucksbaum award joyce foundation award the tiffany foundation award the united states artists rockefeller fellowship the bellagio center residency solomon r. Fountain reparations version resembles an un rinsed sink in an artist s studio turned on its head. Pope l s work fits the bill. He then attended the independent study program at the whitney museum of american art before earning his mfa at rutgers the state university of new jersey in 1981.

Guggenheim fellowship andy warhol foundation grant creative capital foundation grant franklin furnace. He has been making and exhibiting multidisciplinary works since the 1970s and has been featured in numerous publications including intersections edited by marci nelligan and nicole mauro and how to see a work of art in total darkness by darby english. Prior to his 2002 grants to artists award pope l had received several. It features all the components of a drinking fountain including the spout plumbing and porcelain bowl which serves as a canvas for an abstract swirl of acrylics in multiple colors.

Pope l also known as william pope l is a visual and performance theater artist and educator who makes culture out of contraries. A twenty five hour marathon reading of john cage s edited volume with more than eighty invited collaborators. In february 2015 pope l s the black factory archives were acquired by the museum of modern art. His work which also includes photographs sculptures writings paintings drawings and community projects aligns with fluxus.

Pope l is a featured artist in the books intersection 2008 edited by marci nelligan and nicole mauro and darby english s how to see a work of art in total darkness 2007. Pope l blue painting with words and other things 2019 acrylic oil ink and pastel on panel 16 x 12 x 1 5 hxwxd 40 64 x 30 48 x 3 81 cm inventory pop344 courtesy of the artist and vielmetter los angeles photos credit. Pope l studied at pratt institute before receiving his ba from montclair state college 1978. Providing a critical history beginning with fluxus and conceptual art in the early 1960s through present day practices radical presence.