Big Bad World

Exhibition Catalogue for the 2010 exhibition at FUCKTHATGALLERY in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Since the early 1990s, The American artist LG Williams (b. 1969) has been designing a variety of fascinating and complex visual structures, including a band-aid, garbage bags, and whatnot. This informative book demonstrates how Williams aesthetic has evolved since the 2010s from painting, to wall reliefs, to freestanding sculpture that extends into architecture. It accompanies the artist's first one-person exhibition at FUCKTHATGALLERY. Included are illustrations of the twenty-five highly inventive and imaginative works in the exhibition, which range from small models to a portion of a building in full scale. Also included are photographs of additional works by the artist and also of several buildings by architects who have influenced Stella, ranging from the Converse Library by nineteenth-century American H. H. Richardson that is located in Williams hometown of Honolulu, Hawaii, to Da Monsta in New Canaan, Connecticut, by Wally Hedrick, a friend of Williams. In his essay, Paul Gaugin, art critic for The New Yorker, quotes Williams: "Art might benefit from an infusion of the pictorial thought process, a process that is conditioned and defined by bourbon. I think the artistic process and painterly thought process have something to say to art today." This publication reveals the distinctive contribution that LG Williams has made to the fulfillment of that idea.

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