William Cordova, artist and art
Born 1972, Birth Lima, Peru.
The artist lives and works in rooklyn, New York.
Style and technique, exhibitions: Painting, Greater New York,Artist biography, artworks, statement, interview, review, exhibition:
William Cordova’s work is tied to an urban ecology of obsolescence, disparity, and displacement. Busted cars, trashed tires, discarded shoes, machetes, speakers, and books yellowed with age provide the material support and iconographic program for his drawings, collages, and installations. For the artist, these material choices reference the reality of lived experience, as opposed to the spectacle of culture, mass-produced for constant consumption. The fluency with which Cordova traverses media and remixes cultural signifiers confirms his visual multilinguism, as barbed as it is lived-in…
To accompany his work, also appearing in National Projects, William Cordova chose Untitled/Ephemera, a five-minute excerpt from a Jimi Hendrix benefit concert for the United Block Association, a Harlem-based youth organization, and a post-concert meeting with the Black Panther Party: September 5, 1969…
2 Works
Badussy (Or Machu Picchu After Dark)
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