William Pope.L (born 1955 in New Jersey) is an acclaimed and prolific interdisciplinary artist, and is the recipient of many prestigious grants and awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship, NEA fellowships, and the USA Fellowship in Visual Arts. He has shown his work at The Project in New York and Los Angeles, and was included in the 2002 Whitney Biennial. Pope.L is a visual and performance-theater artist and educator who makes culture out of contraries and has created multi-disciplinary work since the 1970’s. He is perhaps best known for his provocative performances, such as ATM Piece, and his decades-long series of crawls across New York City, commemorated in eRacism, a retrospective which showed at several prominent museums and galleries. The Black Factory, his most recent project, toured the East Coast and the Midwest. He currently lives and works in Chicago, IL, where he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago.
William Pope.L’s Black Factory at Philadelphia’s Bartram’s Gardens
Links:
Tompkins Square Park Crawl:
http://vimeo.com/21785641
