William Pope.L: The Process Show

MARCH 2010


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William Pope.L

The Process Show

William Pope.L “The Process Show” Opening Reception First Friday March 5th 6-10pm A collection of new work and excerpts from the last twenty plus years of William Pope.L’s storied, challenged and championed art making practice. “The Process Show” is open from March 1 – March 31, Opening Reception First Friday March 5th 6-10pm. William Pope.L is a visual and performance-theater artist whose work has been widely exhibited internationally and in 2002 was the subject of a nationally toured retrospective organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art. “The Process Show” at Gallery 37-A will present a selection of Pope.L’s sculpture, installation and drawings in an unusually intimate environment on Wharf Street in Portland, Maine. As Pope.L describes, “The selection of work is meant to be impressionistic, and playful not exhaustive; and demonstrates a continuing interest in gravity, oxidation, and the body….” This show is a unique opportunity to experience the internationally acclaimed work of William Pope.L at Gallery 37-A.

William Pope.L “The Process Show”


Opening Reception First Friday March 5th 6-10pm

A collection of new work and excerpts from the last twenty plus years of William Pope.L’s storied, challenged and championed art making practice.

“The Process Show” is open from March 1 – March 31, Opening Reception First Friday March 5th 6-10pm.

William Pope.L is a visual and performance-theater artist whose work has been widely exhibited internationally and in 2002 was the subject of a nationally toured retrospective organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art. “The Process Show” at Gallery 37-A will present a selection of Pope.L’s sculpture, installation and drawings in an unusually intimate environment on Wharf Street in Portland, Maine. As Pope.L describes, “The selection of work is meant to be impressionistic, and playful not exhaustive; and demonstrates a continuing interest in gravity, oxidation, and the body….” This show is a unique opportunity to experience the internationally acclaimed work of William Pope.L at Gallery 37-A.

PRESS
"Finally, a depiction of the Maine coast with a penis in it. And not just “in it,” as in the sense of a penis drawn into an idyll taking place on the Maine coast, dangling from the belt of an illicit Walt Kuhn beach sketch, but genuinely inside it: with this work, the penis has entered the coastline."

— Work in “Progress”

PRESS
"William Pope.L folds his finished works and the detritus of their production and conception into a simmered whole with a haphazard yet strictly curated collection of sculpture, drawings, and scraps spanning 20 years. “The Process Show” is neither a recreation of Pope.L’s studio, nor an explanation of his practice; rather, its aim is to be a portrait of the artist’s headspace. While the work is saturated with his usual themes of class, race, consumption, and identity politics, it seems the overall issues Pope.L refers to are intention and responsibility as an artist. The intimate 37-A Gallery is transformed into a sort of womb, a projection of the artist’s incubating connections and unresolved questions."

— Self design - Museum And Gallery - Portland Phoenix