On September 25, 2009, FUCKTHATGALLERY inaugurated a new avant-garde contemporary art venue in Waikiki with an exhibition of new wall installations by LG Williams entitled "Band-Aids." LG Williams has made many significant exhibitions with galleries and museums all over the world and was the subject of the major traveling European retrospective survey "LG Williams: No Way, Way, Which Way, Anyway You Gotta Be Kidding" initiated by Tate Modern, London in 2008, which traveled by land and sea and the dance of the honeybee (via The Tao of Physics) to the Guggenheim Bilbao and Museum of Modern Art Rome in 2009. Two major museum exhibitions "LG Williams: Go To The Beach, Kiss An Ass, And Ass Kiss The F-ing Natural World Goodbye, Selected Works 1969-2007 BCE," that inaugurated the new wing of The Art Institute of Chicago and "LG Williams: Sensations Of The Smart Fart Moment" at Museo Museum Urn Moderner Kitty-Kunst Kunst, Vienna Hot Dog, runs until October 11,2009.
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About the Author: LG Williams received his M.F.A. from the University of California, Davis nearly twenty years after the school's most famous graduate Bruce Nauman. He has showed at various national and international venues, among them The Internet Pavilion of La Biennale Di Venezia 2011, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, di Rosa Art Preserve, Klaipedos Kultury Komunikacijy Centras, Ludwig Forum fur Internationale Kunst, Super Window Project, Gloria Maria Gallery, Lance Fung Gallery, Steven Wirtz Gallery, and Gallery Subversive, Cologne Art Fair, Artissima, LISTE, Art-O-Rama, and ARCO. A major European exhibition, LG Williams / The Estate of LG Williams, Anthology: 1985-2012, was organized in 2012 by Baron Osuna (Super Window Project) for Gloria Maria Gallery in Milan; the catalogue essay was written by Dr. Thomas Frangenberg, University of Leicester.
An heir to West Coast and Beat Generation art, LG Williams is one of the youngest member of the Rat Bastard Protective Association, whose membership includes Bruce Connor, Wally Hedrick, Jay DeFeo, Joan Brown, and Manuel Neri. Williams has taught at the University of California-Davis, University of Southern California, California College of the Arts, Arizona State University and the University of Hawaii. In March 2009 Cengage Learning / Wadsworth published Williams's Drawing Upon Art: A Workbook for Gardner's Art Through the Ages -- an innovative pedagogical tool designed to facilitate learning art history through drawing. In 2011-12 Williams was the art critic for The Tokyo Weekender, the oldest free English publication in Japan. In 2016 Williams (PCP Press) published Wasted Words and Dust Bunnies by Dave Hickey, edited by Julia Friedman, which was reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement.
More information can be found at www.lgwilliams.com
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