LG Williams

We Are The Champions! (2023) "In a world obsessed with success, there are some who are destined to be champions but will never taste victory. 'We Are The Champions' by LG Williams tells the stories of those who have trained tirelessly, sacrificed everything, and fought with every fiber of their being, only to come up short time and time again. From the athlete who never quite makes it to the top of the podium to the artist whose work is never recognized, these individuals embody the spirit of perseverance in the face of dethe underdogs, the ones who keep going even when the odds are stacked against them. Through their stories, we learn about the true nature of success and failure. We see that success is not always about winning, and that failure is not always a negative outcome. These champions teach us that the journey itself can be a triumph, and that the process of striving towards a goal can be just as rewarding as reaching it. With empathy and insight, 'We Are The Champions' inspires us to keep going, even in the face of setbacks and disappointment. It reminds us that success is not a destination, but a state of mind, and that we can all be champions in our own way, regardless of the outcome." — The Paris Review * * * * * Artwork Details: LG Williams, I Want To Act In A Flick ... Maybe Action Comedy!!! Suspense, Horror, Tenderness, Partial-nudity, Caring, And A Lot Of Martial Art Scenes -- I Can Do It All!!! Dude Obviously Loves To Dance, And Dude Thinks Her ... Abbreviated ... (For RG); Installations: Dimensions Variable, Vinyl Lettering On Wall; Limited Edition Prints: 24 x 24", Lithograph, Edition of 25 * * * * * Purchase The Exhibition Catalogue On Amazon: We Are The Champions by LG Williams, Paperback, 131 pgs, $34.95 * * * * * http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BZFJ4CW9 #lgwilliams #JasperJohns #Target #Duchamp #Rotorelief #ChrisBurden #shoot #capitalistrealism #prosperityaesthetics #InstallationArt #fetchtheboltcutters #collabos #art #arthistory #kunst #статья #samizdat #contemporaryart #conceptualart #juliafriedman #museum #gallery #semiotics #logos #performative #representation #ideology #bbbbbrrrrruuuuuccccceeeee #amusingoneselftodeath . (at Prosjekt Nytt Nasjonalmuseum) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cqa5g5TJJ0Q/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Keys With No Teeth (2012) LG Williams, Keys With No Teeth Or To Be More Specific: Graphic Body Cam Footage Revealed!!! ... But Hey, Hindsight's 20/20. As For Why Dudes Taking So Much Heat, Given It's Not The First Time Dude Passes It Off This Way ... I Just Think It Was Really, Ummm? Aside From This, Dude's Art Is Mostly Innocuous And Uninteresting. Dude's Artist Statement Is Also Pretty Mellow -- Describing The Artist As A Freelance Whose Art Attempts To Bring Humor and Passion ... Like: Free Willy! ... Aka Teeth's Loan & Trust Company, Consolidated, 2012, Blank Keys, Tag, and Label. Edition of 50. "LG's small sculpture of various keys with no cut teeth is a humbling and intricate artwork. The artist's use of everyday objects to create works of art is both innovative and thought-provoking to those who regularly drink caffeinated bong water. This sculpture's use of keys, typically associated with unlocking ancient wisdom and divine spiritual access, raises interesting questions about the nature of interest and questioning, particularly that of being (ie Ontology) and how we protect our possessions – especially money and weed. The absence of cut teeth on the keys adds an extra layer of intrigue to those who are vaguely conscious, suggesting that the keys are no longer valid for their intended purpose but have been repurposed, especially for lonely Postmodern art administrators, critics, and curators with nothing but time on their hands. This sculpture is a testament to humanity's creativity and skill in transforming our unique, beautiful environment into something quite ugly and inhabitable." – The New Yorker The Estate of LG Williams™ would like to extend warm gratitude to The Derazhne-Fridman Charitable Trust for their generous support. Esp B, P, S and V 🐕 ❤️ #lgwilliams #Crusades #keys #HomeDepot #LHOOQ #IllusionOfIndustriousActivity #JuliaFriedman #Representation #CultureIndustry #HistoryOfArt #sculpture #InstallationArt #art #artist #artfair #artmuseum #artgallery #kunst #статья #arthistory #postmodernism #contemporaryart #conceptualart #semiotics #logos #logos #performative #representation #ideology #bbbbbrrrrruuuuuccccceeeee #amusingoneselftodeath . (at Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqV7D6jvy8s/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Bored (2011) "After the 2008-09 Subprime Banking Crisis everything around us was getting boarded up: residencies, RVs, businesses, and entire neighborhoods...I was so taken by the experience, that I convinced a gf to let me exhibit two (2) 4 x 8" pieces of virgin birch ply ($75 ea.) in her living room!  The installation was brilliant and awesome. I can definitively say that we had the most vital and representative art exhibition in the entire USA in our own home all for ourselves for the next year!!! LoL!!! We crushed it...And nobody knew...LoL!!!" — Oral history interview with LG Williams, 2015, June 10-24, Smithsonian Institution Interviews with LG Williams conducted by Paul Karlstrom. (Installation View) LG Williams, Cracked But Ok! Or, It Might Be Perhaps Better To Say, This Is Such A Gentlemanly Thing To Do-Do-Do … Until Today, The One-Of-A-Kind Piece Of Concrete Was Displayed Inside The Theatre And Was Only Visible To Fans Seeing A Show. As You Visit Here For Years To Come, I Encourage You To Place Your Eyes On This Artwork And Take A Moment To Remember This Moment. Which Is To Say: Recently Hospitalized For ‘Several Conditions' ... Promises To Bounce Back (Home Is Where The Woody Is…), 2011, Dimensions Variable, Plywood Mounted On Wall, Edition of 5. Buy The Exhibition Catalogue on Amazon: Cracked But OK!: LG Williams and Super Window Project at Artissima 18 Art Fair by LG Williams, Baron Osuna, and Super Window Project, 2011, 37 pgs, Paperback ISBN: 979-8449626820 https://www.amazon.com/Cracked-But-OK-Williams-Artissima/dp/B09X7VLMSK The Estate of LG Williams™ would like to extend warm gratitude to The Derazhne-Fridman Charitable Trust for their generous support. Esp B, P, S and Vinnie 🐕 ❤️⁣ #lgwilliams #SiliconValleyBank #Foreclosure #fail #plywood #SubprimeMortgageCrisis #HomeDepot #ForSale #DonaldJudd #IllusionOfIndustriousActivity #JuliaFriedman #Representation #CultureIndustry #HistoryOfArt #InstallationArt #art #artist #artfair #artmuseum #artgallery #kunst #статья #arthistory #postmodernism #contemporaryart #conceptualart #semiotics #logos #BaronOsuna #SuperWindowProject @SiliconValleyBank @SignatureBank @FirstRepublic . (at Silicon Valley Bank) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqDpkIKpY1n/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Bored (2011) "After the 2008-09 Subprime Mortgage Crisis everything around us was getting boarded up: homes, businesses, and entire neighborhoods ...  I was so taken by the experience, that I convinced my gf to let me exhibit two (2) 4 x 8" pieces of virgin birch ply ($75 ea.) in her living room!  The installation was brilliant and freaking awesome. I can say definitively that we had the most vital and relevant art exhibition in the entire USA in our own home all for ourselves for the next year!!! LoL!!! We crushed it...and nobody knew...LoL!!!" — Oral history interview with LG Williams, 2015, June 10-24, Smithsonian Institution Interviews with LG Williams conducted 2015 by Paul Karlstrom. (Installation Views) LG Williams, Cracked But Ok! Or, It Might Be Perhaps Better To Say, This Is Such A Gentlemanly Thing To Do-do … Until Today, The One-of-a-kind Piece Of Concrete Was Displayed Inside The Theatre And Was Only Visible To Fans Seeing A Show. As You Visit Here For Years To Come, I Encourage You To Place Your Eyes On This Artwork And Take A Moment To Remember This Moment. Which Is To Say: Recently Hospitalized For 'several Conditions' ... Promises To Bounce Back (Various Artworks), 2011, Dimensions Variable, Plywood Mounted On Wall, Edition of 5. Buy The Exhibition Catalogue on Amazon: Cracked But OK!: LG Williams and Super Window Project at Artissima 18 Art Fair by LG Williams, Baron Osuna, and Super Window Project 2011, 37 pgs, Paperback ISBN: 979-8449626820 https://www.amazon.com/Cracked-But-OK-Williams-Artissima/dp/B09X7VLMSK The Estate of LG Williams™ would like to extend warm gratitude to The Derazhne-Fridman Charitable Trust for their generous support. Esp B, P, S and Vinnie 🐕 ❤️⁣ #lgwilliams #SiliconValleyBank #Foreclosure #fail #plywood #SubprimeMortgageCrisis #HomeDepot #ForSale #DonaldJudd #IllusionOfIndustriousActivity #JuliaFriedman #Representation #CultureIndustry #HistoryOfArt #InstallationArt #art #artist #artfair #artmuseum #artgallery #kunst #статья #arthistory #postmodernism #contemporaryart #conceptualart #semiotics #logos #BaronOsuna #SuperWindowProject @SiliconValleyBank @SignatureBank @FirstRepublic @creditsuisse_ch . (at Silicon Valley Bank) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp20fDipJzE/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Ode To Pink Zip (2023) LG Williams, Meanwhile, Dude Said That Her Heart Has Been Heavy Amid Recent Headlines ... Please, Please Be Kinder, Dude Told Her Fans, Noting In The Comments Section To Consider Others’ Spiritual Health. Thank You And Love You All So Much, Dude Wrote ... I’m Deeply Grateful For Each And Every One Of You Humans. You Make Me Unbelievably Happy -- And Really Really Really Rich!!! Please Keep Buying My Merchandise. Maybe [Dude] Got All The Juice Out Of That Lemon, And Now Dude Wants To Class It Up?,” Dude, 52, Said: AKA The Zipper Of The Stations -- AKA Leo DiCaprio Anatomical Manu B (Retro) Or Rather Ode To The Pink Zip, 2023, Color and Dimensions Variable, Zipper Mounted On Wall, Edition Of 15. #lgwilliams #Ronsard #BarnettNewman #StationsOfTheCross #WhoIsAfraidOfPink #Zips  #pink#IllusionOfIndustriousActivity #EmmyHenning #Representation #CultureIndustry #TheCultureOfNarcissism #HistoryOfArt #painting #art #artist #artfair #artmuseum #artgallery #kunst #статья #arthistory #postmodernism #contemporaryart #conceptualart #semiotics #logos #bbbbbrrrrruuuuuccccceeeee #TheDeathOfGenius . (at Palais de Tokyo) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpxrPTLrvX0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#BrooklynRail Mar '23 LG Williams and Erik David Gallery appear in the Mar '23 issue of The Brooklyn Rail... #lgwilliams #ErikDavidGallery #Signs #AmusingOneselfToDeath #IllusionOfIndustriousActivity #BeverlyHills #EmmyHenning #Representation #CultureIndustry #TheCultureOfNarcissism #HistoryOfArt #sculpture #painting #art #artist #artfair #artmuseum #artgallery #kunst #статья #arthistory #postmodernism #contemporaryart #conceptualart #semiotics #logos #whitelionartfair #bbbbbrrrrruuuuuccccceeeee #TheDeathOfGenius . (at The Brooklyn Rail) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpnaaB8Jbt9/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#TheBrooklynRail Mar '23 LG Williams and Erik David Gallery appear in the Mar '23 issue of The Brooklyn Rail... #lgwilliams #ErikDavidGallery #Signs #AmusingOneselfToDeath #IllusionOfIndustriousActivity #BeverlyHills #EmmyHenning #Representation #CultureIndustry #TheCultureOfNarcissism #HistoryOfArt #sculpture #painting #art #artist #artfair #artmuseum #artgallery #kunst #статья #arthistory #postmodernism #contemporaryart #conceptualart #semiotics #logos #whitelionartfair #bbbbbrrrrruuuuuccccceeeee #TheDeathOfGenius . (at The Brooklyn Rail) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpnYZ7Jp8QN/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

SoCal Midrise (2015-16) LA-based artist LG Williams made his Laguna Art Museum (2016) debut with two recent works from his SoCal Mid-Rise Multi-Story series. While the motif of multipurpose mid-rises is familiar to Southern California residents, Williams’s compositions are actually a rejoinder to his former professor at the University of California, Davis, Wayne Thiebaud. He merges Thiebaud‘s now canonical expositions of Sacramento Valley landscapes, San Francisco cityscapes, and assorted pastries. Nevertheless, this is where familiarity and transparency end. As the viewer looks into the illuminated windows, the mysteries compound and multiply—forms transform into reflections, reflections into abstract thought. Each piece contains approximately three thousand image-roughly the number one sees daily in reality, TV, and digital media. The SoCal Mid-Rise Multi-Story series embraces this new pictorial system of inexorable signs. It is made expressly for our age: The Age Of The Image. Image: LG Williams, 2 Works From The SoCal Mid-Rise Series, 2015-16, 96 X 96” Ea., HP Multipurpose Office Paper, 3m Transparent Film, Brother Cartridge Toner And 3m Scotch Transparent Tape On Canvas. The Estate of LG Williams™ would like to extend warm gratitude to The Derazhne-Fridman Charitable Trust for their generous support. Esp B, P, S and Vinnie 🐕 ❤️⁣ #lgwilliams #SoCal #OC #FashionIsland #JGBallard #highrise #capitalistrealism #prosperityaesthetics #xerox #fetchtheboltcutters #omg #collabos #takethemoneyandrun #art #arthistory #kunst #статья #samizdat #contemporaryart #conceptualart #juliafriedman #museum #gallery #semiotics #logos #performative #representation #ideology #bbbbbrrrrruuuuuccccceeeee #amusingoneselftodeath . (at Hollywood, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpdEhdvpANg/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

I Totally Get It (2016) LG Williams, I Know You Look At Me And Think ‘Whoa Baby,' And I Totally Get It! But I'm Here And This Is Just Amazing. Apparently, The Reason This Is Being Floated At All Is Because It's Actually Quite Difficult To Get A Hold Of You Know, A Cocktail -- In Idaho, Anyway. But Tonight I Made My Own Legacy. They Were There With A Fashion Photographer ... Who Has Become A Leader In Digital Manipulation. As A Brother From Another Mother Notes Here, Lady Was A Complex Character; And God Knows: We Tangled In Moments, As True Sisters Can. But I Loved Him Or Her, And Understood It Better Than I Was Sometimes Willing To Let On ... 2016, Color And Dimensions Variable, Reflective Ink On Engineer Grade Reflective Sheeting On Heavy-Duty Aluminium, Edition of 20. The Estate of LG Williams™ would like to extend warm gratitude to The Derazhne-Fridman Charitable Trust for their generous support. Esp B, P, S and Vinnie 🐕 ❤️⁣ #lgwilliams #Manet #VictorineMeurent #Olympia #capitalistrealism #prosperityaesthetics #geometricabstraction #abstract #figurativeart #fetchtheboltcutters #omg #collabos #takethemoneyandrun #art #arthistory #kunst #статья #samizdat #contemporaryart #conceptualart #juliafriedman #museum #gallery #semiotics #logos #performative #representation #ideology #bbbbbrrrrruuuuuccccceeeee #amusingoneselftodeath . (at National Museum of Iceland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpQJi4gJ1tV/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Dave Hickey in Los Angeles: Pirate vs. Farmers by Julia Friedman in The Huffington Post http://huff.to/1gRln1O

Police use of pepper spray on a dozen protesters at University of California, Davis, on Friday sparked calls for the resignation of the university's chancellor and the start of an investigation into the incident.

LG WILLIAMS / THE ESTATE OF LG WILLIAMS, I CAN SEE THE WHOLE ROOM! AND THERE’S NO ART IN IT!, 2011, 48 X 48″, VINYL AND ENGINEER GRADE REFLECTIVE SHEETING ON HEAVY-DUTY ALUMINUM

“Here (at Artissima 18) the art is sleepy, but it can also wake up with impertinence, as in the case of the artist LG Williams / The Estate Of LG Williams who exhibits at the gallery Super Window Project in Kyoto, Better than Picasso. The work does not really exist, but you take away the plate for only 2500 euros…” La Stampa Source: http://bit.ly/ujiiPh