{"id":12520,"date":"2022-06-17T12:05:35","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T16:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=12520"},"modified":"2022-06-17T14:33:27","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T18:33:27","slug":"william-wegman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/william-wegman\/","title":{"rendered":"William Wegman"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_390\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-12520-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/2022\/WilliamWegman.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/2022\/WilliamWegman.mp3\">https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/2022\/WilliamWegman.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><figure id=\"attachment_12526\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12526\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12526 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Wegman-portrait.jpeg?resize=300%2C202&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Wegman-portrait-scaled.jpeg?resize=300%2C202&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Wegman-portrait-scaled.jpeg?resize=1024%2C689&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Wegman-portrait-scaled.jpeg?resize=768%2C517&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Wegman-portrait-scaled.jpeg?resize=1536%2C1033&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Wegman-portrait-scaled.jpeg?resize=2048%2C1378&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Wegman-portrait-scaled.jpeg?resize=696%2C468&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Wegman-portrait-scaled.jpeg?resize=1068%2C718&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Wegman-portrait-scaled.jpeg?resize=624%2C420&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Wegman-portrait-scaled.jpeg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12526\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">William Wegman in his studio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/williamwegman.com\/\">William Wegman<\/a> was born in Holyoke, Massachusetts, in 1943 and received a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston and an MFA from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His work has been exhibited extensively in both the United States and abroad, including solo exhibitions at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (1982); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1988); Whitney Museum of American Art (1992); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2001); and The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (2002). The retrospective \u201cWilliam Wegman: Funney\/Strange\u201d was held at the Brooklyn Museum, and traveled to the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; the Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach; the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover; and Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus (2006-07).<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Since his first exhibition at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.speronewestwater.com\/artists\/william-wegman#tab:slideshow\">Sperone Westwater<\/a> in 1990, Wegman has exhibited regularly at the gallery (1992, 2003, 2006, 2012, 2016, 2017 and 2022).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The book <a href=\"https:\/\/primaryinformation.org\/product\/writing-by-artist\/\"><i>William Wegman: Writing by Artist <\/i><\/a>was edited by Andrew Lampert and published in April 2022 by Primary Information. The first collection to focus on Wegman\u2019s lengthy and deeply funny relationship to language, the book is filled with over 300 previously unknown and wildly entertaining texts, drawings, and early photographs spanning the early 1970s to the present.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12527\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12527\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12527 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/SW-22109-OMG-copy.jpeg?resize=640%2C429&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/SW-22109-OMG-copy-scaled.jpeg?resize=1024%2C687&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/SW-22109-OMG-copy-scaled.jpeg?resize=300%2C201&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/SW-22109-OMG-copy-scaled.jpeg?resize=768%2C515&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/SW-22109-OMG-copy-scaled.jpeg?resize=1536%2C1031&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/SW-22109-OMG-copy-scaled.jpeg?resize=2048%2C1374&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/SW-22109-OMG-copy-scaled.jpeg?resize=696%2C467&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/SW-22109-OMG-copy-scaled.jpeg?resize=1068%2C717&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/SW-22109-OMG-copy-scaled.jpeg?resize=626%2C420&amp;ssl=1 626w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/SW-22109-OMG-copy-scaled.jpeg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12527\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">William Wegman, OMG, 2021, acrylic and charcoal on wood panel, 40 x 60 inches<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12529\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12529\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12529 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/SW-22053-Untitled-Moths-cost-us-millions-copy.jpeg?resize=640%2C841&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"841\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/SW-22053-Untitled-Moths-cost-us-millions-copy-scaled.jpeg?resize=779%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 779w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/SW-22053-Untitled-Moths-cost-us-millions-copy-scaled.jpeg?resize=228%2C300&amp;ssl=1 228w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/SW-22053-Untitled-Moths-cost-us-millions-copy-scaled.jpeg?resize=768%2C1010&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/SW-22053-Untitled-Moths-cost-us-millions-copy-scaled.jpeg?resize=1168%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1168w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/SW-22053-Untitled-Moths-cost-us-millions-copy-scaled.jpeg?resize=1557%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1557w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/SW-22053-Untitled-Moths-cost-us-millions-copy-scaled.jpeg?resize=696%2C915&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/SW-22053-Untitled-Moths-cost-us-millions-copy-scaled.jpeg?resize=1068%2C1405&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/SW-22053-Untitled-Moths-cost-us-millions-copy-scaled.jpeg?resize=319%2C420&amp;ssl=1 319w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/SW-22053-Untitled-Moths-cost-us-millions-copy-scaled.jpeg?w=1946&amp;ssl=1 1946w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/SW-22053-Untitled-Moths-cost-us-millions-copy-scaled.jpeg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12529\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">William Wegman, Untitled (&#8220;Moths cost us millions&#8230;&#8221;), 1970-71, typewritten text on paper, 11 x 8 1\/2 inches<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/2022\/WilliamWegman.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listWilliam Wegman was born in Holyoke, Massachusetts, in 1943 and received a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston and an MFA from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. 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