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See
more of William T. Ayton's work at www.ayton.net
MUSEUM
ON THE SEAM featured WAR ROOM in
international exhibit BARE
LIFE together with Anselm Kiefer, Bill Viola,
Bruce Nauman, Sophie Calle, Paul McCarthy & others (2007-2008).
War
Room images on display at the Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem,
Israel. L-R: The Witnesses (partial view), The Victims, The Warriors.
Welcome
to THE WAR ROOM -- a four-wall painted gallery installation
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Upstate
New York |
The Warriors, 2004
acrylic on canvas
approx. 10' x 16' |
The Warriors, 2004
acrylic on canvas
approx. 10' x 14' (includes 20" ledge) |
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2009 -- a book of poetry & artwork by Eliot Katz & William T. Ayton: Love, War, Fire, Wind: Looking Out from North America's Skull. Features images related to War & The War Room. Eliot Katz also read some of his poetry in the Manhattan War Room reading in 2004.
The book is now available:
Amazon.com
BN.com
and many other fine booksellers. |
DIRECT
ART MAGAZINE vol. 12
4
page article on the War Room |
page 1 |
page 2 |
back cover: Empire of Death |
October
2005 (USA) -- 4 page article on the War Room
plus back cover, "Empire of Death"
A PDF file of the article & back cover is available here (1.17MB).
A PDF file of the article only is available here (960KB).
Clicking on the images above will take you to the article on the Direct Art web
site. |
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NOW : WAR
ROOM PORTFOLIO |
above: back/front cover |
24 interior
pages -- b/w & color
Download free here (PDF,
3.26MB)
Purchase printed from Lulu.com,
$12(US) + S&H |
Latest
Press
Warning:
some of the images on this site are disturbing, but much less disturbing
than actual war.
The War Room Project website promotes the anti-war art installation
"The War Room", which is currently being developed for
exhibition. Here, you can find working
sketches for the project, as well as additional
works on related themes.
And
visit www.ayton.net
for Ayton's online gallery.
Several
of the artworks featured on this site have already been exhibited
in galleries/online. We are currently lining up installations of
the complete War Room. Please check the news
page for ongoing details.
NEWS
2007-2008
Oct 2007 - June 2008 -- The original painted studies for 3 of the War Room panels (The Warriors, The Witnesses, The Victims), as well as the small color painting, "Hiroshima: Ground Zero" were on display in Jerusalem, Israel, at the Museum on the Seam.
2006
Oct-Nov -- "The
Victims (study)" from The
War Room was on view at the show "American
Diaspora"
at Victory
Hall Cultural Center, Jersey City.
The
War Room portfolio has been released soon
via Lulu.com. It is 24 pages, printed in color
(includes monochrome & color
images). Price is $11 (US) plus S&H.
It is also available for download in web-resolution
PDF format from this site, free
of charge.
2005
The
War Room is featured in an article in the
magazine
Direct Art, volume 12, which is
on sale in Oct-Nov 2005.
Footage
of The War Room (NYC) & an interview with the
artist may be featured in an upcoming documentary about
the relationship between art & politics, entitled "Art
Rules". More details will be posted here when they
become available.
2004
War
Room -- small-scale installation: Albert Shahinian
Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY, opened August 21, 2004.
War
Room -- full-scale installation: Manhattan (part
of the Imagine Festival), opening August 26, 2004, chashama
gallery. More details coming soon.
Online
review
of the Propaganda of War group show (Oct-Nov
2003, Washington DC), which contained several pieces on
this site.
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A
note on copyright:
Art & images on this website are copyright William
T. Ayton,
unless otherwise indicated. For permission to reproduce these images
for non-commercial or commercial purposes, and to obtain higher-resolution
images, please contact: info@warroomproject.org.
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