POWHIDA

last wednesday william powhida came to talk at nysp. he's a NY artist/art critic who does really interesting things with "still life" paintings of torn out notebook paper with lists, of magazine articles with made up stories, etc. he also has an alter ego that he wrote a screenplay about, and he showed us some of the movie he made. it's basically making fun of himself, and he got one of the famous guys who does voice overs for all the holly wood movies to do the voiceover for the movie he made, "POWHIDA," where he calls himself a genius and stuff. it was hilarious, really. i hope he puts it up on youtube or something soon. he also did drawings like "Everyone I've Ever Met from Memory (that I can remember)", which was one of my favorites. it makes me want to try to do that just for myself. it even included caricatures and little blurbs about who each person was.

he also did an "enemies" list. he also told us about how he did a caricature of zach feuer, who is a gallery owner in new york city, and zach saw it at an art fair and stormed out. and because of how zach reacted, it made the drawing all the more famous. idk, i would definitely recommend checking out powhida's site and googling him as well, because he does some really interesting and humorous stuff, and he's very up and coming.

what was funny is i just got hearing from last week, and then i saw one of his pieces at a book art fair at PS1 in queens! i probably shouldn't have been so surprised, but i was just like, oh, i just saw him!

here's the crappy cellphone pic i took of the powhida piece i saw.