![]() ![]() You're going to play in a lot of these championship games before you're through and you have to look forward to each one as if it's the greatest opportunity and the greatest moment of your life." His coach, Rocky Graciano, took note of the promising player's trepidation and told him, "Bill, you've got to learn to love these moments because this is what sports is all about, playing for the championship. A shy and nervous seventh grader who stuttered, Walton was in no hurry to leave the restroom before the tip-off of a local Catholic league championship game. He learned about competition early, beginning at Blessed Sacrament Elementary School in La Mesa, a suburb of San Diego. Walton didn't just play basketball he understood the soul of the game. He said, 'Bill, I know you feel very strongly about this, but I just don't think that you getting arrested and taking part in this demonstration is what it's all about," says Bill Walton on ESPN Classic's SportsCentury series.īefore the injuries hampered his professional career, Bill Walton dominated college basketball.įrom 1972-74, Bill Walton led UCLA to an 86-4 record and two national titles.Īt UCLA in the early '70s, the 6-foot-11, 235-pound center was the linchpin of the Bruins winning an NCAA record 88 consecutive games. Indeed it was not always simple to tell the tools from the work, to judge whether an artful arrangement of screws and bolts was waiting to be used or to be admired."One of the saddest days for Coach Wooden was the day he came down and had to bail me out of jail after I got arrested in the anti-Vietnam protest. Tools and materials were arranged as carefully as works of art. At the time of his death in 2010, Walton\\\'s studio was a small miracle of order. His studio contained an exhibition area so he could display his work in progress in order to judge whether or not it was finished, a crucial part of his studio practice. Walton, a commercial printmaker by trade and later an instructor at Moore College of Art and Design (1974-1990), was often more interested in the materials used for printmaking-wood, lead, steel-than in the finished product. This exhibition recreates the unique environment of the minimalist artist, a key figure in the Philadelphia art community for nearly 50 years. The Institute of Contemporary Art presents Bill Walton\\\'s Studio in the Project Space. ![]() ![]() ![]() His work is included in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Yale University Gallery, and the Davis Museum at Wellesley College.Įxhibition walkthrough with curator Ingrid Schaffner: Wednesday, September 7, 5PM, ICA Members Only In 2018, Frith Street Gallery, London, presented a solo exhibition, his first international showing. He has had several solo gallery exhitions in New York, at venues including JTT and James Fuentes. He had his first exhibition in 1971, and over his long career exhibited in galleries nationally and at a variety of Philadelphia institutions, including the Fabric Workshop and Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Institute of Contemporary Art, the Print Center, and the Leonard Pearlstein Gallery at Drexel University. Interested in the materials used for printmaking-wood, lead, steel-more than the finished product, Walton began to make sculptures after seeing an exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He was a commercial printmaker by trade, and later an instructor at Moore College of Art and Design (1974–1990). Bill Walton was born in Camden, New Jersey and briefly studied at the Institute of Design in Chicago before moving to Philadelphia in 1964, but was essentially self-taught. ![]()
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