William Powhida
Based in Brooklyn, NY, William Powhida is actively engaged with the contradictions and absurdities of class-based realities in the commercial and public art worlds. He has complied enemy lists of collectors and curators, hired an actor to portray himself as an abusive caricature at openings, and used the corporation “Grevsky LLC” to critique the making and selling of contemporary artwork. The artworks themselves are mostly text-driven drawings and paintings, in a highly skilled trompe l'oeil style.
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Works on Paper
“What is an Artist?”
Graphite, watercolor, colored pencil on paper
20 x 16"
2017
signed and dated on reverse, lower left
$5,000
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Prints
“What is an Artist?”
4 color Letterpress, laser cut and die cut parts mounted on Reich Savoy Brilliant White paper.
Image Size: 7.5" x 5.625" x 0.375"
Paper Size: 20 x 16 x 0.375"
Edition of 30, 4 APS, 2 PPs
2017
signed and dated lower right, numbered lower left
$950
Market Crash
Archival Inkjet Print on Paper
44/50
31 x 24”
2007
Courtesy of the artist and Schroeder Romero, New York
$950
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Artist’s Book
William Powhida's artist book After the Contemporary is a fictional review of today’s art world from the year 2050 using ArtForum magazine as a template. It was designed for William Powhida’s first solo museum exhibition at the Aldrich Museum in Connecticut and draws from a variety of academic, curatorial, philosophical, and sociological sources, as well as critical, speculative fiction.
After The Contemporary
Soft Cover Book
Edition of 50
10.5 x 10.5”
2018
$100
