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An heir to the West Coast and Beat generation art, LG Williams is the youngest member of the Rat Bastard Protective Association, whose membership included Bruce Connor, Wally Hedrick, Jay DeFeo, and Manuel Neri. Williams received his M.F.A. from the University of California, Davis -- nearly twenty years after the school's most famous graduate Bruce Nauman. He has showed at many national and international venues, among them The Internet Pavilion of La Biennale Di Venezia 2011, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, di Rosa Art Preserve, Klaipėdos Kultūrų Komunikacijų Centras, Ludwig Forum Aachen, Super Window Project, Gloria Maria Gallery, Lance Fung Gallery, and Steven Wirtz Gallery.

Reviews featuring Williams have appeared in Artforum, Art Issues, Art Week, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, La Stampa, Japan Times, Huffington Post, Purple.fr, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Maui Weekly, Java Magazine, and Glass Magazine. Art historian Thomas Frangenberg (University of Leicester), wrote the catalogue essay for Anthology: 1985-2012, Williams' mid-career retrospective in Milan; and Donald Preziosi (University of California Los Angeles), featured Williams' artwork in his 2014 monograph Art, Religion, Amnesia: The Enchantments of Credulity (Routledge).

Williams curated Wally Hedrick's War Room for The 2003 San Francisco International Art Fair, the first time this "significant item of Bay Area art history" had been exhibited since 1967. In 2009 Cengage Learning / Wadsworth published Williams's Drawing Upon Art: A Workbook for Gardner's Art Through the Ages -- an innovative pedagogical tool designed to facilitate learning art history through drawing. During 2010-11 Williams was the art critic for The Tokyo Weekender, the oldest free English publication in Japan. In 2016, Williams' publishing house PCP Press released Dave Hickey's Wasted Words and Dust Bunnies compiled and edited by art historian Julia Friedman.

Williams has taught studio art, art history, art appreciation, and graphic design courses since 1990 with programs such as The University of California, Davis, University of Southern California, California College of the Arts, Arizona State University, and The University of Hawaii.

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LG Williams Band-Aids® Exhibition Catalogue (2009) Sep 15, 2009

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LG Williams Band-Aids® Exhibition Catalogue (2009) at FTG Gallery in Honolulu, Hawaii.

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Banksy Punked Mar 1, 2009

by LG Williams

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INTERNATIONALLY KNOWN STREET ARTIST ‘Banksy’ was punked in response to altered Paris Hilton CD inserts that were placed in British record stores last year.

According to artworld insiders, this prank has Banksy’s closest American associate – Shepard Fairey of Obey Giant / Obama ‘Hope’ poster fame – being punked by Los Angeles artist LG Williams. Williams punked Fairy with an idea which sparked 300 posters being sold and exhibited in art galleries here and abroad. Adding insult to injury, Williams also supplied the artist with the very source image on which the punked artist based his posters.

The 2005 Traveling Western RV Biennial Art Show Apr 1, 2005

by LG Williams , John Natsoulas

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The 2005 Traveling Western RV Biennial Art Show

The Hollowell Global-Mobile Institute For Visual Arts™ -- in conjunction with The John Natsoulas Center for the Art, Western Biennial of Art – presents: The 2005 Traveling Western RV Biennial Art Show

LG WILLIAMS is the Emma Hennings Distinguished Professor of Visual Art and Art History at D(D).DDDD University in Honolulu, Hawaii. He received his M.F.A from the University of California, Davis and B.A. from the Kansas City Art Institute. Williams also holds an honorary Ph.D. from ISSA, Cedar Rapids, IA. Williams has taught art, art history and art appreciation courses at the University of California-Davis, University of Southern California, California College of the Arts, and the University of Hawaii, to name a few. Author of many books and publications on art, art criticism, and poetry, Williams has appeared in Modern Painters, Juxtapoz, Artweek, Art Papers, Village Voice, San Francisco Chronicle, Honolulu Bulletin, Sacramento Bee, LA Weekly, Maui Weekly, SF Weekly, and The Bay Guardian. Williams’s recent curatorial projects include Wally Hedrick’s, War Room, at the San Francisco International Art Fair. His most recent book, Drawing Upon Art: A Workbook for Gardner's Art Through the Ages (Cengage Publishing), was published January 2009.

For the past two decades, John Natsoulas has pursued his vision of making fine art accessible in a friendly setting. Although this is a rarity in the gallery world, his dedication to art history, art education, and the exhibition of California art has translated beautifully into the John Natsoulas Gallery.

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Hasste Und Angst: Neu Kunst Bei LG Williams Apr 1, 2005

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Hasste Und Angst: Neu Kunst By LG Williams

This volume is a photographic document of a series of artworks by LG Williams. It is a necessary volume for anyone interested in this important artist's work. It also provides valuable resource material for art historians, and scholars, regarding the artist and West Coast American Avant-garde Art in the late 20th and early 21st century.

LG WILLIAMS is the Emma Hennings Distinguished Professor of Visual Art and Art History at D(D).DDDD University in Honolulu, Hawaii. He received his M.F.A from the University of California, Davis and B.A. from the Kansas City Art Institute. Williams also holds an honorary Ph.D. from ISSA, Cedar Rapids, IA. Williams has taught art, art history and art appreciation courses at the University of California-Davis, University of Southern California, California College of the Arts, and the University of Hawaii, to name a few. Author of many books and publications on art, art criticism, and poetry, Williams has appeared in Modern Painters, Juxtapoz, Artweek, Art Papers, Village Voice, San Francisco Chronicle, Honolulu Bulletin, Sacramento Bee, LA Weekly, Maui Weekly, SF Weekly, and The Bay Guardian. Williams’s recent curatorial projects include Wally Hedrick’s, War Room, at the San Francisco International Art Fair. His most recent book, Drawing Upon Art: A Workbook for Gardner's Art Through the Ages (Cengage Publishing), was published January 2009.

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So Dich Dedard Ein Sruchstuck Apr 1, 2004

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So Dich Dedard Ein Sruchstuck by LG Williams

LG WILLIAMS is the Emma Hennings Distinguished Professor of Visual Art and Art History at D(D).DDDD University in Honolulu, Hawaii. He received his M.F.A from the University of California, Davis and B.A. from the Kansas City Art Institute. Williams also holds an honorary Ph.D. from ISSA, Cedar Rapids, IA. Williams has taught art, art history and art appreciation courses at the University of California-Davis, University of Southern California, California College of the Arts, and the University of Hawaii, to name a few. Author of many books and publications on art, art criticism, and poetry, Williams has appeared in Modern Painters, Juxtapoz, Artweek, Art Papers, Village Voice, San Francisco Chronicle, Honolulu Bulletin, Sacramento Bee, LA Weekly, Maui Weekly, SF Weekly, and The Bay Guardian. Williams’s recent curatorial projects include Wally Hedrick’s, War Room, at the San Francisco International Art Fair. His most recent book, Drawing Upon Art: A Workbook for Gardner's Art Through the Ages (Cengage Publishing), was published January 2009.

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You Get The Point: An Exhibition of Thirty-Six Paintings by LG Williams Apr 1, 2004

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You Get The Point: An Exhibition of Thirty-Six Paintings by LG Williams

WHEN LG WILLIAMS DESCRIBES the eyes as the windows on the soul, what he is saying is that whatever else we can conceal of ourselves through our dealings with the world, we cannot conceal what our eyes reveal of our inner nature, and eye-contact is a crucial part of the enactment of any interpersonal relationship. The idea of the soul has strongly artistic connotations, of course, and he wrote, in his Killer Beings (2002), "the face is locus par excellence of the aura.” We find this acknowledged in artistic and mystical traditions, in which the saintly face may be surrounded by an aura or halo" we might imagine here the face as a window lit from within, a lucent spirituality shining out from the soul -a symptomatic expression of artistic mania in contemporary parlance. In contemporary commercial and glamour painting, while the mouth of the subject maybe fixed in a broad smile or a seductive pout the eyes may well appear dead-pan, detached from the artifice acted out by the more mobile regions of the face. This deadpan mien is forgivable, but the cold calculating stare that we occasionally encounter -reminiscent of that emotive detachment redolent of the psychopath -is the polar opposite of the saintly 'aura', and something that excavates unbridgeable chasms.

LG WILLIAMS is the Emma Hennings Distinguished Professor of Visual Art and Art History at D(D).DDDD University in Honolulu, Hawaii. He received his M.F.A from the University of California, Davis and B.A. from the Kansas City Art Institute. Williams also holds an honorary Ph.D. from ISSA, Cedar Rapids, IA. Williams has taught art, art history and art appreciation courses at the University of California-Davis, University of Southern California, California College of the Arts, and the University of Hawaii, to name a few. Author of many books and publications on art, art criticism, and poetry, Williams has appeared in Modern Painters, Juxtapoz, Artweek, Art Papers, Village Voice, San Francisco Chronicle, Honolulu Bulletin, Sacramento Bee, LA Weekly, Maui Weekly, SF Weekly, and The Bay Guardian. Williams’s recent curatorial projects include Wally Hedrick’s, War Room, at the San Francisco International Art Fair. His most recent book, Drawing Upon Art: A Workbook for Gardner's Art Through the Ages (Cengage Publishing), was published January 2009.

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Josè Queervô: New Works on Wall Apr 1, 2004

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Josè Queervô: New Works on Wall
Lemon Gallery Inaugural Exhibition

IN LEMON'S FIRST EXHIBITION IN PARADISE, the infamous, transgendered artist-activist, and Mexican Pan Asian- American exhibitionist Jose "OOOh-yah" Queervo appropriates and reorganizes images {totally unprecedented!] taken from the all over the world [no kidding - he/she just took a course, Introduction To Computers, at the La Rasa Mission Cultural and Community Health Center] like American mass media [really, oh wow!], International folk art [nice!], and religious iconography [scandalous!], us ing them to create bitingly new [and oh, can he or she ever bite! Take it from me - Ed.] and often very humorous political and social satires [note to art consultants, curators, and undergrads: I bet you've never heard of this before!]. The Lemon exhibition [like i.e., its our gallery's first ever exhibition in the fucking entire universe "New Works" follows Queervo [and his/her potent perfume, the self Zen-entitled, Cloud After Hydroponics Has Worked Its Magic] as he/she creates a new satirical installation aimed at anything and everything ["I'm an inclusive artist", Jose is keen to say, "hear me roar from the rear: Roarrrrr. In the series, ‘Queenie’ experiments (No, she is not a scientist silly; but she just adores "to create" in latex gloves and white stockings) with new installations techniques with master gallerist, Lemon's very own Heidi Dunstheimer, RN [Note to inspired artists: imagine the shape all the fucking embolden words create on this fucking page. Man, its really far-out].

Duct And Covered: New Art By LG Williams Apr 1, 2003

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Duct And Covered: New Art By LG Williams

On April 5th, 2003 Linc Real Art in SF showcased a remarkable exhibition, entitled Duct and Covered, by LG Williams, a leading American avant-garde artist and the seminal figure working today with duct tape. This show highlights LG Williams's latest artworks from his very recent "Duct and Covered" series, a series conceived exclusively for duct tape - the artist’s current art material of choice. This bold and challenging new group of paintings and sculptures directly alludes to several important events that define a decisive turn in the contemporary American outlook, art and culture.

GROßMACHT AUSSTELLUNG! Apr 1, 2003

by LG Williams

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Manchmal ube rschatzt man die modernen Zeiten. LG Wil liams's 2002 urau fgefUhrtes Kunstwerk "GROI1MACHT AUSSTELLUNG!" im Wahljah r 2000 anzusehen , ist so ahnlich. wie Mike Dike Popreporlagen aus den BOer Jahren zu lesen - was wir heute als akluell und neu empfinden , ist alles schon mal dagewesen. 1m Faile von "GROI3MACHT AUSSTELLU NG! " " der Pe rsbnlich keilskull um die Spitzenkandiaten. die Macht der neuen Medien, politische Kontrahenten, die versuchen, sich gegenseitigmit sexuellen Skanda len und medizinischen Verleumdungen aus dem Rennen zu werfen. und die Unfah igkeil der Kunst. im Wahlkampfmil refevanten Themen an den Start zu gehen.

LG WILLIAMS is the Emma Hennings Distinguished Professor of Visual Art and Art History at D(D).DDDD University in Honolulu, Hawaii. He received his M.F.A from the University of California, Davis and B.A. from the Kansas City Art Institute. Williams also holds an honorary Ph.D. from ISSA, Cedar Rapids, IA. Williams has taught art, art history and art appreciation courses at the University of California-Davis, University of Southern California, California College of the Arts, and the University of Hawaii, to name a few. Author of many books and publications on art, art criticism, and poetry, Williams has appeared in Modern Painters, Juxtapoz, Artweek, Art Papers, Village Voice, San Francisco Chronicle, Honolulu Bulletin, Sacramento Bee, LA Weekly, Maui Weekly, SF Weekly, and The Bay Guardian. Williams’s recent curatorial projects include Wally Hedrick’s, War Room, at the San Francisco International Art Fair. His most recent book, Drawing Upon Art: A Workbook for Gardner's Art Through the Ages (Cengage Publishing), was published January 2009.

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I 5 Apr 1, 2002

by LG Williams

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LG WILLIAMS, one of the master imaginations of American art and one of the most acute observers of American life and art history, turns his immense artistic and historiographic talent to a portrait of the formidable Interstate S. In 1-5, LG transports the reader into the traffic, the blacktop, the mind-numbing boredom, and the flat horizons of California's central thoroughfare. We come to know this freeway, through LG's splendid and percipient eye, in ways we have not up to now - his view of the road, his worries about traffic, his concern about making good time and not getting killed along the way. LG brings this major artery to life at this key moment in the demise of the great state. He also illuminates the force and weight of the state's great central valley, the produce and water deliveries, and the institutions of government, which support both. More than any other interstate, California is still largely governed by the ideas invoked by this roadway.

LG WILLIAMS is the Emma Hennings Distinguished Professor of Visual Art and Art History at D(D).DDDD University in Honolulu, Hawaii. He received his M.F.A from the University of California, Davis and B.A. from the Kansas City Art Institute. Williams also holds an honorary Ph.D. from ISSA, Cedar Rapids, IA. Williams has taught art, art history and art appreciation courses at the University of California-Davis, University of Southern California, California College of the Arts, and the University of Hawaii, to name a few. Author of many books and publications on art, art criticism, and poetry, Williams has appeared in Modern Painters, Juxtapoz, Artweek, Art Papers, Village Voice, San Francisco Chronicle, Honolulu Bulletin, Sacramento Bee, LA Weekly, Maui Weekly, SF Weekly, and The Bay Guardian. Williams’s recent curatorial projects include Wally Hedrick’s, War Room, at the San Francisco International Art Fair. His most recent book, Drawing Upon Art: A Workbook for Gardner's Art Through the Ages (Cengage Publishing), was published January 2009.

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Stars Apr 1, 2002

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People have a profound need to see stars. They believe in them, in their unwavering truth. Through them they orient themselves with the unchanging depths of the universe; without them, could anything be really important? Country people, able to see stars everyday, never face this dilemma. But now, with blankets of smog and glaring city streets and signs, whole civilizations are being denied this most worldly wisdom. It is we - we city-dewellers, we visually challenged - who experience the problem actutely. This book is a cautionary reminder of the beauty hovering over and above the obstacles.

This classic companion to THE DOW articulates the remarkable unity underlying all the great artistic traditions.

LG WILLIAMS is the Emma Hennings Distinguished Professor of Visual Art and Art History at D(D).DDDD University in Honolulu, Hawaii. He received his M.F.A from the University of California, Davis and B.A. from the Kansas City Art Institute. Williams also holds an honorary Ph.D. from ISSA, Cedar Rapids, IA. Williams has taught art, art history and art appreciation courses at the University of California-Davis, University of Southern California, California College of the Arts, and the University of Hawaii, to name a few. Author of many books and publications on art, art criticism, and poetry, Williams has appeared in Modern Painters, Juxtapoz, Artweek, Art Papers, Village Voice, San Francisco Chronicle, Honolulu Bulletin, Sacramento Bee, LA Weekly, Maui Weekly, SF Weekly, and The Bay Guardian. Williams’s recent curatorial projects include Wally Hedrick’s, War Room, at the San Francisco International Art Fair. His most recent book, Drawing Upon Art: A Workbook for Gardner's Art Through the Ages (Cengage Publishing), was published January 2009.

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Really Apr 1, 2001

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Really by LG Williams. This volume is a photographic document of a Williams performance / action in a book. It is a necessary volume for anyone interested in this important artist's work. It also provides valuable resource material for art historians, and scholars, regarding the artist and West Coast American Avant-garde Art in the late 20th and early 21st century.

Since the early 1990’s LG Williams has staged "actions," ritualistic performances meant to produce the unity of art and life, which Williams repeatedly proclaimed and sought. Besides his writings, drawings, paintings, sculptures, press releases, objects and teaching, these actions are considered by many to be the most mysterious, most elusive part of the artist’s immense body of work.

LG WILLIAMS is the Emma Hennings Distinguished Professor of Visual Art and Art History at D(D).DDDD University in Honolulu, Hawaii. He received his M.F.A from the University of California, Davis and B.A. from the Kansas City Art Institute. Williams also holds an honorary Ph.D. from ISSA, Cedar Rapids, IA. Williams has taught art, art history and art appreciation courses at the University of California-Davis, University of Southern California, California College of the Arts, and the University of Hawaii, to name a few. Author of many books and publications on art, art criticism, and poetry, Williams has appeared in Modern Painters, Juxtapoz, Artweek, Art Papers, Village Voice, San Francisco Chronicle, Honolulu Bulletin, Sacramento Bee, LA Weekly, Maui Weekly, SF Weekly, and The Bay Guardian. Williams’s recent curatorial projects include Wally Hedrick’s, War Room, at the San Francisco International Art Fair. His most recent book, Drawing Upon Art: A Workbook for Gardner's Art Through the Ages (Cengage Publishing), was published January 2009.

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