Bill Wurtz

Place: Pasadena

Born: 1948

Biography:

Bill Wurtz, known professionally as B. Wurtz (b. 1948, Pasadena, California), is an American painter and sculptor. He lives and works in New York City. Wurtz received a BA from the University of California at Berkeley in 1970, and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 1980. Wurtz's sculptures are characterized by an appreciation for the ubiquitous, common-place items he uses: plastic grocery bags, disposable baking trays, coat hangers, tuna tins, buttons, shoelaces, cardboard, and construction lumber. His work has been described as a "bricolage of found objects." He has shown his work widely in solo and group exhibitions internationally. Wurtz's work is represented in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the Portland Art Museum, among others.