Secrets, confessions, excavations…
Over the past few days, I have had the pleasure of developing a performance art symposium with my colleagues and fellow performance artists at Goldsmiths College.
Themes of the confessional, sharing secrets, achieving deepened creative liberty, interpersonal connectivity, and personal excavation, have been constant treads throughout our conversation.
This gave me the idea of creating a little space for confessions to be shared…a place of off-loading, of writing secrets down, casting them outside of oneself like lines of intimacy extending out into the world, of acknowledgment and unearthing, of celebration, ownership, therapeutic community and self-examination.
So here’s an invitation to you. You are cordially invited to join me in this virtual confession room to anonymously explore, off-load, own, celebrate, purge, acknowledge, bring into the light, hold up to the sky, magnify. Please remember this is not about guilt or anything even remotely Catholic. It’s about celebrating secrets and liberating latent creative energy! I think many of our secrets contain critical clues to our hearts’ deepest desires. And sharing them can help facilitate a lighter, freer, more creatively liberated way of living.
Welcome to the Creative Confession Room.
May 12, 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
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
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