absurdity, if you will… My focus is to politicize disenfranchisement, to make it neut, to reinvent what’s beneath us, to remind us where we all come from.” In his Foundation for Contemporary Art Fellowship bio, he writes: "Like the African shaman who chews his pepper seeds and spits seven times into the air, I believe art re-ritualizes the everyday to reveal something fresh about our lives. This revelation is a vitality and it is a power to change the world.". Selected publications Pope.L: My Kingdom for a Title Los Angeles: New Documents. 2021. member: Pope.L, 1978-2001. New York: The Museum of Modern Art. 2019. William Pope.L: The Friendliest Black Artist in America Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. 2002. References Further reading The Whole Entire World: Interview with William Pope.L by Amy Horschak in Dak'Art 2006, La Biennale de Dakar: Dakar, 2006, p. 382-383. Pope.L: Showing Up to Withhold, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, The University of Chicago Press: Chicago, IL, 2014 (). External links The Black Factory project official website Documentary Film of the Black Factory Rehearsal 2005 Artful Mind article from 2004 The Void Show Exhibition Review published in X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly 1955 births Living people 20th-century American painters American male painters 21st-century American painters 21st-century American male artists American performance artists Bates College faculty University of Chicago faculty African-American contemporary artists American contemporary artists American contemporary painters Drama teachers Walking artists Franklin Furnace artists Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture alumni 20th-century African-American painters 21st-century African-American artists 20th-century American male artists Artists from Newark, New Jersey Painters from New Jersey