William Pope.L

Quick Facts

Full Name	William Pope.L
Occupation	Painter
Date Of Birth	Jun 28, 1955(1955-06-28)
Age	69
Birthplace	Newark
Country	United States
Birth City	New Jersey
Horoscope	Gemini

William Pope.L Biography

William Pope.L is one of the most popular and richest Painter who was born on June 28, 1955 in Newark, New Jersey, United States. Pope.L (also also known as William Pope.L born in 1955, in Newark, New Jersey) is an American visual artist who is best known as an artist working in the field of performance art as well as interventionist public art. But he also created artwork through photography, painting, and theatre. Pope.L was featured in the 2002 Whitney Biennial and is a Guggenheim Fellow and a recipient of the Creative Capital Visual Arts Award. Pope.L was also part of the 2017 Whitney Biennial.

In the ATM Piece, performed in 1997, he hung himself using an eight-foot length of Italian sausage to the entrance of the Chase Bank in midtown Manhattan in a dress made of dollars.

In 2002 Pope.L received a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award. In 2004 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2005 The Black Factory, an art installation on wheels, traveled from Maine to Missouri as part of The Interventionists show organized by the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MOCA). “Typically the Factory arrives at a city or town and sets up its interactive workshop on the street. People bring objects that represent blackness to them. The Factory’s workers use these objects in tightly rehearsed but loosely performed skits to stimulate a conversation — a flow of ideas, images and experiences. Most objects are photographed and made part of the Factory’s virtual library, some are housed in the Factory’s archive for later use, and some are pulverized in the Factory’s workshop to make new products available in the Factory’s gift shop.”

The Warhol Foundation, in partnership with the Rockefeller Foundation and the LEF Foundation provided $50,000 in funding for the traveling retrospective to tour the United States. eRacism exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art; Diverse Works Art space, Houston, 2003; Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA), Oregon, 2003; and Artists Space, New York, 2003 .

From 1990 until in the year 2010, Pope.L was a professor of Theatre as well as Rhetoric in Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. As a professor, he directed the production that incorporated Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin In the Sun where he utilized the African American as well as Caucasian actors as part from the same group.

William Pope.L Net Worth

William Pope.L is one of the richest Painter from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, William Pope.L 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

eRacism the project Pope.L began in the latter part of the 1970s, featured more than 40 endurance-based shows comprised of “crawls”, varying in length and duration. One example is the Tompkins Square Crawl (1991) Pope.L dressed in a business suit , and crawled down the street at Tompkins Square Park, New York and pushed an unintentional flower in one hand. Another example , titled The Great White Way involved the crawl that spanned two miles, and took five years for the completion. In this show, he put on the Superman costume and secured skateboards to his back. The entire crawl covered 22 miles along Broadway located in New York City. The footage of the performance was published in 2002’s Whitney Biennial.

Pope.L was a student at Pratt Institute from 1973 to 1975, and was a participant in Pratt Institute from 1973 to 1975 and was a participant in the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program from 1977 to 1978. He graduated with an undergraduate degree in Arts and Sciences at Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey, in 1978. He was awarded the master of Fine Arts degree in visual arts from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey in 1981.

In 2001 the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) advisory renew panel granted Pope.L $42,000 in financing for a traveling retrospective called “William Pope.L: eRacism”. Shortly after announcing the award, the acting chairman, Robert S. Martin, rescinded funding for the grant. Joel Wachs, then president of the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, stated in the December 21 issue of The New York Times:

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In 2015 MOCA, Los Angeles presented Trinket, the largest solo museum presentation of Pope.L’s work to date. The centerpiece of the show is Trinket, a monumental, custom-made American flag (approximately 54 x 16 feet) hanging on a pole in the middle of the Geffen. During the museum’s public hours the flag will be continuously blown by four large-scale industrial fans — the type used on Hollywood film sets to create wind or rain effects — and will be illuminated from below by a bank of custom theatrical lights. Over time the flag will appear to fray at its ends due to the constant whipping of the forced air, a potent metaphor for the rigors and complexities of democratic engagement and participation. Trinket was originally produced in 2008 at Grand Arts, in Kansas City, Mo., as the centerpiece of Pope.L’s exhibition Animal Nationalism.

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