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I’ll be showing new photographic work at two upcoming exhibits in London which open this weekend:
Art Art Art at Matt Roberts Arts, Unit 1, 25 Vyner Street, Bethnal Green, London, E2 from July 2-3 (from 6:30 on July 2nd)
AND
Exhibit 1 at Temporary Contemporary, Old Police Station, 114-116 Amersham Vale, London SE15 6LG from July 3-12 (Opening July 3 from 6-11pm)
Exhibit 1 PRESS RELEASE
We are pleased to invite you to the first yearly selected group show of studio artists at The Old Police Station. Exhibit 1 will take place over two floors of The Old Police Station with selected artists from the studios making site-specific responses to the Police Gym, Cells, Interview Rooms and Operations Yard. With Cake and Neave aka The Little Artists, Lia Chavez, Rosie Cooper, Mário Pires Cordeiro, Andrew Hladky, Sam Kemp, Teresa Paiva, Inês Rebelo, Michael Schwab, Biggi Stiller, Alexandra Unger, Jo Wilmot, Sinead Wheeler, Flora Christina Whiteley. Selected by Mário Pires Cordeiro and our new Gallery Manager, Sara Pergola. 3rd – 12th July, Private View: 3rd July 6-8pm. (Open 12-6pm 3, 4, 5, 11, 12 July). Coinciding with the opening of the Exhibit 1 will be the first Open Studios throughout the building, offering the public an opportunity to get up close and personal with the artists and their works. 3rd & 4th July, 12-6pm. See website for details: http://www.tempcontemp.co.uk/oldpolicestation.html
June 24, 2009
My work will be part of the upcoming Armory Show’s VIP program
William T. Hillman + Lia Chavez collaborative work on exhibit.
This exhibit features large-scale unique Ilfochrome prints which explore the fine line between the gorgeous and the grotesque, alongside themes of the abstract figure, mythologies of origin, and Brechtian image production.
The exhibition will be open to the public from Thursday March 5 and Friday March 6, 10am – 6pm, and Saturday March 7, 11am – 5pm.
At Affirmation Arts, 523 West 37th Avenue, New York, NY
February 8, 2009
Good heavens, this is one of the most moving exhibits I have experienced in a long time. And I mean to emphasize ‘experience’ over merely ’seeing’. Brazillian artist Cildo Meireles’ use of sound, audience participation and unconventional art materials such as baby powder, money and glass enables the viewer to erase the boundary between the merely conceptual and raw sensation, and in doing so creates encapsulating metaphors for political and existential limbo, vulnerability, despair. Yet, somewhere in there is also a poetic invitation to hope despite all the chaos and vertigo. Walking upon Meireles’ glistening shards of glass in my fabulous, open-toe heels of course really heightened a sense of confronting my own pathos and naked fragility, and yet it also evoked a strange feeling of power, which was indeed a wild surprise! I can clearly identify a couple distinct moments in my mind where I was not afraid of the potential pain that was everywhere present. Almost like an experience in meditation in which one finds peace and joy in the space between the ego and the self. What a gift this experience was. Don’t miss it.
£6000 worth of pennies
October 22, 2008
An exquisite coffee table book has been published for the Hillman+Chavez show by Affirmation Arts. For information regarding purchasing this publication, please contact Affirmation Arts in New York.
October 22, 2008
Agitatto, a Swiss online gallery, features a unique collection of international artists: photographers, painters and sculptors. I have contributed a new series of work, exploring movement and light in the urban environment, to the gallery. Visit www.agitatto.com for more details. “Agitatto online gallery is dedicated to promoting contemporary art and to bringing you the best of the international creative scene.”
September 23, 2008
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Marla Goldwasser
marla@affirmationarts.com
Advent 1, 2008, Unique Ilfochrome Print, 48 x 60 inches
Hillman + Chavez
September 19 – October 24, 2008
Opening Reception September 19th 6-8pm
August 28, 2008: New York, NY: Affirmation Arts is pleased to announce the opening of Hillman + Chavez on September 19, 2008. The exhibition inaugurates the collaboration of William T. Hillman and Lia Chavez. A book, with an introduction by Gary Sangster, accompanies the exhibition. Both artists will be present at the September 19th reception from 6-8pm.
Thirteen large, unique photographic works created within the past year will be exhibited. These innovative photographs explore light and space, while abstractly presenting the figure as form. Sangster writes “For Hillman + Chavez the lure of light coupled with the lure of the body – in particular bodies in motion or bodies under tension, physical or psychological – is accentuated through the elaboration of a new, hybrid photographic technique that enmeshes digital photography, with traditional photography and the static silhouette system of the photogram.”
Trained as a painter and academic, William T. Hillman studied landscape painting at the Lacoste School of the Arts in France and portraiture and anatomy at the Art Students League in New York City. He received an MA and an MBA from Princeton and Columbia Universities. He has experimented throughout his career, moving from painting to montage to computer-digitized photographic images. Recently represented by Barry Friedman Ltd. and shown at Splash, at the Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery in New York, Hillman will be included in TINA B. -The Prague Contemporary Art Festival: Forms of Engagement in the fall of 2008. Hillman, American born in 1954, lives and works in New York City.
Lia Chavez studied art and art history in Florence, Italy, and at Goldsmiths College, University of London, as well as gender theory, anthropology, and visual cultures at the International Gender Studies Center, University of Oxford. Her multimedia work, which focuses on photography, has been exhibited in London, New York, and Europe. Recent exhibitions include Lifeblood, at Samuel Klein Contemporary Art, London; Shot and Go: A Vision of Today’s International Photography, Venice; and Nightcomers, Tenth International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul. Chavez, American born in 1978, lives and works in London.
Gallery hours: Monday – Friday 10am-6pm and Saturday 11am-5pm. For more information, including images and catalogue, please contact Marla Goldwasser at 212 925 0092 or via email marla@affirmationarts.com
Go, 2008, Unique Ilfochrome Print, 108 x 144 inches
September 5, 2008