Art
exploring the landscapes of culture, politics, media, and time though paint, light, and ephemera
Work from the Literary Landscape series currently on exhibit in "Faces, Places, and Pages," at the Leonia Municipal Building Art Gallery, 229 Fort Lee Rd, Leonia, NJ 07605, up October 28, 2024 - January 31, 2025
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Pictured: Literary Landscape | John Clark and Camille Martin (ed. & trans.), “Anarchy, Geography, Modernity: Selected Writings of Elisée Reclus,” | 2017| 16”x2-” | gouache on board
Art
exploring the landscapes of culture, politics, media, and time though paint, light, and ephemera
Design
Offering a full rage of digital and print design, production, and publishing including print, social media, web design, and motion graphics and video
Design
Offering a full rage of digital and print design, production, and publishing including print, social media, web design, and motion graphics and video
Projects & Series
William Mazza Artist Statement
William Mazza is a Brooklyn-based visual artist centered in community-based arts with a focus on art-making as a form of popular communication. Exploiting chance operation, collaboration, accumulation, and duration across studio and performative practices, the artist documents the spatial and temporal relationships of people to their environments, scribing a cartography which maps the conceptual boundaries of lived experience.
The most material expressions of this project are drawings and paintings created by translating subjects such as inhabited environments, intervals of dislocation, television and film, printed texts, music, and dance into visual representations. Less direct expressions include ephemera or artifacts generated from projected durational painting, or from projecting ive painting mixed with custom video and animation during improvised, collaborative, interdisciplinary performances—most often with a mix of musicians, dancers, and poets.
Collaboration also finds expression in short- or long-term engagement with community-based arts organizations including The Belladonna* Collaborative, the interdisciplinary producer Arts for Art / Vision Festival, and the Matzo Files (a flat file gallery) in NYC, or the update artist collective Altered Space Community Arts (Syracuse, NY), and the artist cooperative State of the Art Gallery (Ithaca, NY). These experiences not only expand the definition of cultural work from the individual outward in practice, they also manifest in unexpected opportunities to collaborate across disciplines, inspiring and enriching the solo practice through a practical symbiosis.
These collaborations often blur the contempory dichotomy between art and design, in a time when artists of all disciplines are expected to act as their own promotion, marketing, and business team. Having a friend with software like the Adobe Creative Suite and skill sets to use them to create original artwork and professional quality design can be a supportive service to musicians, writers, filmmakers, poets, or any artist needing to navigate the worlds of print and digital publishing.