REPUBLICATION ORDERING INSTRUCTIONS: For the duration of my show, Unretrospective, in _Money Matters _Kendall College of Art and Design you can order an authenticated “POWHIDA” republication from any JPEG* available on my website. Please browse my online catalog and send an email to stephen@platformgallery.com with your request(s).**_ Please use the following format for ordering_** (You can copy and paste it right into an email to **stephen@platformgallery.com**)

• File Name: (Please control+click/right-click on the thumbnail image and copy the Image URL ie http://williampowhida.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/14_AP_DearGrandRapids.jpg)
• Desired Size (Max width or height in inches):
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Please allow 1-3 business days for the Stephen to provide you with a price quote (stretching will cost extra). A deposit for half of the republication will be required to begin production in ShenZhen, China. You can expect to receive your oil painted JPEG and a certificate of authenticity within 4 - 6 weeks. There’s one painter…one…willing to do reproduce my work. * Each JPEG will be altered slightly by me and the Chinese painter who works on these.

Take away the term’s mock lexicality (itself a parody of artspeak) and you have a staggering précis of today’s top-down creative churn.`

-Christian Viveros-Faune, “William Powhida Christens the “Overculture”, Village Voice

All of this suggests that resistance to “overculture”, whether in art or in writing, is noble but ultimately futile.

-Karen Rosenberg, “Glimpses of the Past and a High-Tech Future: A Critic’s Gallery Crawl Through Soho and Tribeca”, The New York Times

This work, like 2011’s “Griftopia,” suggests an ambition to find a way to articulate our vertiginous moment without stinting on its complexity, a graphic format with the potential to become an art of everything.

-Thomas Micchelli, “Like It Is: William Powhida at Postmasters”, Hyperallergic

The self-awareness of this show and its high level of skill left me with a sense for Powhida that was ultimately more profound and somber than comic.

-James Panero, Gallery Chronicle, The New Criterion Photo Credit:_ Installation view, “William Powhida: Overculture” at Postmasters Gallery (photo by the Thomas Micchelli for Hyperallergic)_

William Powhida Unretrospective Press Release May 1 to June 7, 2014 Artist’s Reception, Saturday, May 3, 11AM to 5PM Platform Gallery is pleased to present our third solo exhibition of works by William Powhida. It has been six years since Powhida’s last solo show at Platform. In that time he has continued his critique and dissection of both the art world and the financial world through text-based drawings and works on canvas including lists, charts, diagrams, instructions for the fabrication of “sculptures” and “paintings,” both as the persona “Powhida” as well as the actual artist William Powhida. His most recent exhibitions in New York (Derivatives and Overculture) and Los Angeles (Bill by Bill) have focused on the causes and effects of the financial crisis; the idea of artistic originality and outsourced fabrication of artworks in contemporary art; and the current frenzied art market flooded with oligarchs' abundance of money. Along with new drawings for the exhibition, Powhida is making republications of his past work available as original oil paintings made in a painting village in Shenzhen, China, to be painted in oil on canvas. Nods toward globalization, reproducibility, and the fabrication of artworks of an artist by other (anonymous) artists point to the discussion that at least one of the two Powhidas want the viewer (and collector) to consider. From his piece titled “Dear Seattle”: “After discussing a show where nothing would be for sale . . . we were informed that would be pretty . . . stupid. I’m all for some self sabotage but running a gallery isn’t FREE because RENT, LABOR, TIME, etc. Then Stephen told me about his trip to China and the painting village. We decided it would be great to do a kind of “Greatest Hits” show or a unRetrospective (the museums aren’t exactly lining up offers). Through the MAGIC of exploitive globalization we are able to offer “original” POWHIDA republications at PRICES you might be able to afford for a limited time (OR our inventory runs out in decades days). For your viewing pleasure and instant gratification, we’ve pre-ordered 5 BRILLIANT LISTS reflecting the trajectory of my artistic . . . GROWTH. You can also order ANYTHING off my website while the show is open following simple instructions. Please, just BUY something.”

Postmasters is pleased to present Overculture an exhibition of new works by William Powhida. The show will include paintings, sculptures, drawings, lists and charts. Overculture 1: (noun) 1.a small cultural group (artists) within the larger culture, often affirming the beliefs or interests of the ruling class (collectors). “The two parties thus engage in an uneasy courtship around unspoken divisions and unacknowledged aspirations, where each seeks the perceived (and performed) freedoms of the other." -David Geers (verb) 1. a negative or ambivalent feeling about culture often in relation to socio-economic conditions. (read more) from the press release

GUTS “Co-curated by George Terry and Jonathan Durham GUTS are the slippery viscera of courage, nerve, and audacity. Quite possibly the most vital trait an artist can have. The artists in this exhibition embrace the irreversibility of pushing themselves through the most narrow of passageways. The choices they make come with great risk of failure to materials, concept, reputation, and body. Risk takers, however, at times achieve the highest results and deserve the most respect.”