Institute of Contemporary Art at the Maine College of Art & the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art Artists Space, New York Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2004
Exhibited
Portland, Institute of Contemporary Art at the Maine College of Art; Houston, DiverseWorks Artspace; Portland Institute of Contemporary Art; New York, Artists Space, William Pope.L: eRacism, July 26, 2002–February 21, 2004
Literature
Mark H.C. Bessire, ed., William Pope.L, The Friendliest Black Artist in America, Cambridge, 2002, p. 215 (illustrated, p. 117)
Building upon his provocative performances and public interventions, Pope.L has applied the same social and formal strategies to painting, photography, performance, video, and installation to probe issues of language, system, class, race and gender. For his RePhotocollage series, Pope.L has manipulated and combined images of body parts to create “figural encounters”. Originating out of the artist’s desire to betray the artist’s hand while simultaneously creating images highly suggestive of the body, these compositions are scanned, flattened and reprinted on single large planes of paper.