William Pope.L
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William Pope. L [born 1955] is a prominent, multi-disciplinary artist known for his ironic and martial conceptual art dealing with consumerism, social class and racism. Pope. L regularly draws upon his African-American heritage to tackle variations upon what he calls "social conundrum."[1]
He is trenchantly dubbed "The Friendliest Black Artist in America", which is also the title of a book on his works published in 2002 by MIT Press. Recent activity by Pope. L includes The Black Factory, a wayfaring project initiated in 2004 and displayed at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MOCA) as part of The Interventionists show. In another performance piece called The Great White Way, Pope. L crawled his way from the Battery north through Manhattan dressed in a Superman outfit.
William Pope.L was recently featured alongside other performing artists: Sean Penn, Willem Dafoe, Brad Pitt, Steve Buscemi, and Juliette Binoche in Robert Wilson's LAB HD portraits.
Pope. L currently works as a lecturer of Theater and Rhetoric at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine.
[edit] Further reading
- William Pope. L: The Friendliest Black Artist in America, Mark H. C. Bessire, The MIT Press: Cambridge, MA, 2002 (ISBN 0-262-02533-7).
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- The Black Factory project official website
- Documentary Film of the Black Factory Rehearsal 2005
- Archive of The Interventionists show at Mass MOCA
- Exhibition at Artist's Space: January 14 - February 21, 2004
- Distributing Martin
- Artful Mind article from 2004
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