William Pope.L "Forest" @ Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects

Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects presents "Forest," their first solo exhibition with the legendary William Pope.L. The exhibition features paintings and sculptures in an architectural installation surveying the artists object-based practice from the mid-1990s through the present. William Pope.L is a visual and performance-theater artist and educator who makes culture out of contraries. "Forest" will be on view until December 5, 2015 at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, 6006 Washington Blvd Culver City, CA. photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper

William Pope.L: Trinket at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles

William Pope.L is perhaps best known for his extreme performative works, like the "The Great White Way," which involved him crawling 22 miles through the streets of New York in a superman costume with a skateboard strapped to his back - it took a span of five years to complete. In his new exhibition at the MoCA in Los Angeles, entitled "Trinket," Pope.L presents a number of installation works - including a giant American flag, which is being blown by four giant fans. Over the course of the exhibition, the flag will eventually unravel and disintegrate, thus continuing the artist's philosophy of the American identity in a contemporary context, especially as a black man. William Pope.L: Trinket will be on view until June 28, 2015, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles