LG Williams Appears In Artforum Magazine September 2023…
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Meet Los Angeles Artist LG Williams… (June 2023)
Meet The Los Angeles Artist LG Williams
Hi LG, thanks for joining us today. Are you happier as a creative? Do you sometimes think about what it would be like to just have a regular job? Can you talk to us about how you think through these emotions?
Yes, I am a Los Angeles-American artist and global-nomadic creative. I enjoy the freedom and self-expression that comes with the calling. Being a self-professed ‘Capitalist Realist,’ post-consumer, post-truth, trans-dimensional artist is thrilling.
On most days, I’m simply broke and gobsmacked…
While I was satisfied and enjoying the freedom and self-expression that came with the life of an internationally recognized post-conceptual artist a few years ago, I also wondered what it would be like to have a regular day job. This curiosity is why, in 2016, I became the Founder and CEO of an entirely new creative venture or hyper-conceptual approach to art-world-building known as Prosperity Aesthetics™ International. With Prosperity Aesthetics™ International (PA™ for short), I could share and teach millions of confused but emerging young artists and miserable-but-incredibly-wealthy executives how to seek out and find true artistic and financial rewards in today’s ridiculously lucrative contemporary Art world….
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Erik David Gallery & LG Williams Appear in The Brooklyn Rail Magazine (Dec 2022)
PCP PRESS IN ARTFORUM MAGAZINE (DECEMBER 2022)
LG Williams Appears In VoyageLA (Nov 2022)
Voyage LA: Today we’d like to introduce you to LG Williams. Hi LG, thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, maybe you can tell our readers some of your backstories.
LG Williams: I’ve been asked this question a lot during my adult daycare residency’s afternoon Arts and Crafts program—especially after my year-long, worldwide artist lecture tour and subsequent acceptance into the Post-Conceptual/Post-Commodity Revisionist-Art Hall of Fame in Carmel, CA. (By the way, the center just finished customizing and renaming their dumpster to honor my name and artistic legacy. The plaque on it reads, “In Honor of LG Williams: Everyman’s Trash.”)
LG Williams (2014) and Jonathan Horowitz (2020)
LG Williams (2013) and Maria Eichhorn (2016)
LG Williams Endowed University Instructor At AAU.EDU
San Francisco — Dec. 8, 2021 — Academy of Art University, one of the largest private, accredited art and design schools in the nation, has announced that award-winning artist LG Williams has joined the University as an endowed instructor in fine arts.
“I am grateful to have been selected for this coveted position and believe my experiences and expanse of knowledge within the arts can go a long way for both the University and its students,” said LG Williams. “We have been able to do a lot of great work thus far, and I hope to continue to contribute to the mission and goals that the Academy sets out to achieve for its students.”
Williams joins the Academy of Art University as a multidisciplinary artist holding an MFA in Art from the University of California, Davis, where he studied under Wally Hedrick, Wayne Thiebaud, Robert Arneson, Manuel Neri, David Hollowell, and Mike Henderson. He recently served as The Robert Hughes Distinguished Visual Artist-In-Residence at The Lodge in Hollywood. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Japan Times, Los Angeles Times, La Stampa, Bookforum, Purple Diary, Huffington Post, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Juxtapoz Magazine, LA Weekly, and OC Weekly, among others. In 2014 Donald Preziosi (Emeritus Professor of Art History, UCLA) included Williams in “Art, Religion, Amnesia: The Enchantments of Credulity…”
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