Bio

William Mazza is a Brooklyn-based visual artist whose work is deeply rooted in community-driven arts, with a particular focus on using art as a means of popular communication. By incorporating chance operations, collaboration, accumulation, and duration across both studio and performative practices, Mazza explores the spatial and temporal connections between people and their surroundings. His work creates a cartography that maps the conceptual boundaries of lived experience.

The most tangible outcomes of his practice are drawings and paintings, which reimagine subjects like lived environments, moments of dislocation, television and film, printed texts, music, and dance as visual forms. More ephemeral expressions arise through artifacts or materials created during durational painting projects, where live painting is combined with custom video and animation, often during improvised, collaborative, interdisciplinary performances with musicians, dancers, and poets.

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