Author

William Corwin

Author

William Corwin

William Corwin covers art news and features in North America. He is a sculptor, journalist, and curator from New York. He has exhibited at The Clocktower, LaMama and Geary galleries in New York, as well as galleries in London, Hamburg, Beijing and Taipei.

He has written regularly for The Brooklyn Rail, Artpapers, Bomb, Artcritical, Raintaxi and Canvas and formerly for Frieze. He curated and wrote the catalog for Postwar Women at The Art Students League in New York, an exhibition of the school’s alumnae active between 1945-65, and 9th Street Club, an exhibition of Perle Fine, Helen Frankenthaler, Mercedes Matter, Grace Hartigan, Lee Krasner and Elaine Dekooning at Gazelli Art House in London.

His most recent curatorial projects were the first solo exhibition of French Mid-century painter Marguerite Louppe (1901-1989) at Rosenberg & Co gallery in New York (Corwin has been working with the estates of Marguerite Louppe, and her husband the painter Maurice Brianchon for the past decade), and The Agreement:  Chromatic presences, and exhibition of colored sculpture featuring Ugo Rondinone, Lynn Umlauf, Remy Jungerman, Kianja Strobert and Tom Doyle, among others.

He is the editor of Formal Concerns: Collected Essays of Saul Ostrow, to be published in 2023 by Elective Affinity Press, and participated in the exhibition Anchor/Roots at the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art at Snug Harbor Cultural Center in 2021. He is the author of the book &Model (2020), a history of a Grass-roots artist-run gallery in Northern England, published by Leeds Metropolitan University.


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