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Forest
Installation View
Installation View

Forest
Installation View
Installation View

Forest
Installation View
Installation View

Pope.L
"Forest," Installation View
"Forest," Installation View

Forest
Installation View
Installation View
Photo credit: Robert Wedemeyer

Forest
Installation View
Installation View
Photo credit: Robert Wedemeyer

Forest
Installation View
Installation View
Photo credit: Robert Wedemeyer

Forest
Installation View
Installation View
Photo credit: Robert Wedemeyer

Pope.L
"Heaven (Vielmetter Version)," 2013- 2015
"Heaven (Vielmetter Version)," 2013- 2015
28 stacks of plastic cups, wooden shelf
36.50" H x 3" W x 3.75" D

Pope.L
Favorite Painting, 2003
Favorite Painting, 2003
17 PVC Tiles
13.50" H x 67.50" W x 2" D

Pope.L
"Negro Idea #253," 2003
"Negro Idea #253," 2003
Vinyl on colored PVC
12.75" H x 11.75" W

Pope.L
"Trophy (Big Bear)," 2007
"Trophy (Big Bear)," 2007
Wood, stuffed animal, oil paint, acrylic paint, acrylic medium, peanut butter, screws
25" H x 24" W x 18" D

Pope.L
"Trophy (Small Panda)," 2007
"Trophy (Small Panda)," 2007
Wood, stuffed animal, oil paint, acrylic paint, acrylic medium, peanut butter, screws
14" H x 12.50" W x 4.50" D

Pope.L
Gold People Are Black Children, 2015
Gold People Are Black Children, 2015
Oil and hammer on linen
24" H x 18" W

Pope.L
AKA Fuschia Ending, 2015
AKA Fuschia Ending, 2015
Oil on linen
27" H x 18" W

Pope.L
"Quad Figure (Four Tarts)," 1997 - 1998
"Quad Figure (Four Tarts)," 1997 - 1998
Pencil, marker, and acrylic on Pop Tart
13.75" H x 11.50" W x 1.50" D

Pope.L
Poptarts, 1997 - 1998
Poptarts, 1997 - 1998
Pencil and marker on Pop Tart
7" H x 5.50" W x 1.75" D

Pope.L
"Trinket AKA Slave Ship," 2000 - 2005
"Trinket AKA Slave Ship," 2000 - 2005
Marker and acrylic on Pop Tarts
10.50" H x 25" W x 1.50" D

Pope.L
"Triptych," 1998 - 2000
"Triptych," 1998 - 2000
Pencil and marker on Pop Tart
4.50" H x 10" W
Press Release
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects is pleased to announce “Forest,” our first solo exhibition with Pope.L opening on October 23, 2015. This exhibition will feature paintings and sculptures in an architectural installation surveying the artists object-based practice from the mid-1990s through the present. A simultaneous solo exhibition, “Desert,” at Steve Turner will present a new film, “Obi Sunt,” about the ghost of Joe Gans, the first African American World Boxing Champion, and the mythology that surrounds the resurrection of a past through biography. The exhibitions will be accompanied by a GPS driving tour of the space in between the Forest and the Desert, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects and Steve Turner. A walking tour, led by Los Angeles artist, Jimena Sarno, exploring similar themes will leave from Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects on November 7, 2015. Please contact Ariel Pittman (ariel@vielmetter.com) for more information about the walking tour leaving from Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects and how to RSVP.
Pope.L is a visual and performance-theater artist and educator who makes culture out of contraries. He has been making multidisciplinary works since the 1970s, and has exhibited internationally including New York, London, Los Angeles, Vienna, Montreal, Berlin, Zurich, and Tokyo. He is a featured artist in the book “Intersections” edited by Marci Nelligan and Nicole Mauro, and Darby English’s “How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness.” He participated in the New Museum’s 2010 – 2011 exhibition “The Last Newspaper” with a reenactment of his infamous “Eating the Wall Street Journal” performance. In 2011, the Museum of Modern Art in New York invited Pope.L to participate in their FluxKit project. He is the recipient of the 2012 Joyce Foundation Award to create “Pull!” a large-scale public project presented through Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, OH. In 2013 he created the performance / film project “A Long White Cloud” at Te Tuhi, Auckland, New Zealand, and presented the solo exhibitions “Colored Waiting Room “at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, NYC; and “Forlesen” at The Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL, which also published the accompanying 2014 monograph “Pope.L: Showing Up to Withhold.” His work was presented as part of the 2014 exhibitions “Ruffneck Constructivists” at the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute of Contemporary Art and “Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art” at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; and in the solo exhibitions “Claim” at Littman Gallery, Portland, OR, and “Gold People Shit in their Valet,” at Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels, Belgium. The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA, presented his 2015 solo exhibition “William Pope.L: Trinket.”