photo gallery link here
2008年11月3日(月・祭)-11月23日(日)
IN THE PARK 2008
Open Air Art Exhibition
November 3th (Mon.) - 23th (Sun.) 2008
Zempukuji Park and surrounding area
http://www.npo-machimedia.org/trolls/information.html (Japanese)
http://www.npo-machimedia.org/trolls/e-information.html (English)
"Birdhouse."「アトリエの末裔あるいは未来」展についての問い合わせ:
〒110-8714
東京都台東区上野公園12-8
東京藝術大学美術学部 彫刻科 （助手：大竹 利絵子）
TEL：050-5525-2163
FAX：050-5525-2494
会期 ２００７年１１月２２日（木）～１２月２日（日）期間中無休
会場 旧平櫛田中邸 〒110-0002 東京都台東区上野桜木2-20-3
時間 １０：００～１７：０0
ギャラリートーク １２月２日（日） 13：00～15：00
（出品作家による作品解説を行います)
主催 上野タウンアートミュージアム実行委員会（東京芸術大学・台東区）
「トロールの森2007 まちと森をつなぐかたち」
公開制作 ／2007年10月21日（日）～11月2日（木）
展示期間／2007年11月3日(土・祭)～2007年11月18日(日)
"Trolls In A Metropolitan Green Park"
On-site installation in Zenpukuji Park, Tokyo
http://www.npo-machimedia.org/trolls/information.html
http://trollnomori2007.blogspot.com/
Three-person exhibition:
"Stone, Paper and Wood: sculpture and prints"
現代彫刻「里山の木でつくりましょう」
Bill was an instructor this summer at the Yokohama Museum of Art Citizen's Workshop see link - scroll down to #8 (Japanese) where he taught a contemporary wood carving/sculpture course. Thanks to the museum and workshop staff (especially Kinoshita-san). And of course, thanks to everyone who participated. Keep in touch!
Bill was an invited participant in an international sand sculpture festival held July 21 on Mongsanpo Beach in Taean County, South Chungcheong Province. Thanks to Professor Kim Sung-Bok of Sungshin Women's University, for everything.
Three person exhibition: "Keizo Tawa, Bill Wolff, Masayuki Hashimoto."
Bill was recently profiled in a Tokyo Arts publication called New Art Journal (Shinbijutsu Shinbun). (Feb. 1, 2007) The column is called "21st century faces" and features Bill and his work at the Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music, where he is currently researching hollow block wood carving techniques. The title of the article translates as "A Love of Wood."
Publication Details: "A Love of Wood: Bill Wolff" (Japanese) New Art Journal (Shinbijutsu Shinbun), Tokyo, Japan. February 1, 2007.
With studio lighting...
And, with natural lighting.
These are two photos of Bill Wolff's newest work, "Jonah" as seen in the studio.
The piece is approximately 190cm x 240cm x 150cm, and weighs about 300 pounds. It was made from a single camphor log, cut apart and reassembled. A small person can easily stand inside it.
Venue for this piece is currently being located.
Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Union Gallery.
Bill was one of two organizers/curators for this event, which involved 10 members of the foreign art community in Tokyo.
The Second Annual "New Work From An Old Studio" was held from December 1st-10th at the Hiragushi Denchu Atelier in Sakuragi-cho, Ueno, Tokyo. The Denchu atelier/residence was built in 1920 in Ueno's Sakuragi neighborhood as a residence and studio for sculptor Hiragushi Denchu (1872-1979). Denchu taught wood carving at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts from the age of 73 (1944 to 1952).
For the second "New works from an old studio," graduate students, faculty and researchers from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music once again exhibited wood sculpture in this historical building. Unlike a conventional gallery, works exhibited at the residence were sited directly on tatami mats and in various places around the house and atelier.
Bill's piece was sited in the front room, overlooking the front courtyard of this traditional wooden home. 
http://www.geidai.ac.jp/labs/denchu/index.htm (Japanese)
Map http://www.geidai.ac.jp/labs/denchu/map.htm
This solo exhibition (個展） was held from 10.31.2006 to 11.11.2006 at Gallery Sakamaki in Kyobashi, Tokyo. Thank you to Sakamaki Kiku for her assistance.
"Creation and Voice of the Wood; the Art Exhibition in the Forest of Yokohama." This three-week long installation in the forest involved 15 international artists from Japan, the USA, Germany, Bosnia-Hertzegovenia, Taiwan, Indonesia and Australia.
http://www.morinokoe.jp/(Japanese 日本語)
"Coalition of the Willing." 2006. Cypress, white oak, copper, rope. 210cm x 150cm x 180 cm. 
"Yurei(Specter)." 2006. White oak, rope. 250cm x 50cm x 100 cm.
"Coalition of the Willing." 2006. Cypress, white oak, copper, rope. 210cm x 150cm x 180 cm. 
"Yurei(Specter)." 2006. White oak, rope. 250cm x 50cm x 100 cm.
"Coalition." Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku Genkan Gallery, Tokyo, Japan. May 29th-31st, 2006.
Coalition:
The work in this exhibition deals with the idea that a way of life focused on consumption is untenable. Sooner or later, unthinking and unrelenting consumption begets violence. While all of this work is derived from figurative origins, gesture is given first priority, with the human form reduced to open mouths and sharp, pointy hands. Material usage and conceptual approach go hand in hand in my work.
Wood is flesh.
Metal represents control.
Rope is a symbol of human activity.
Works:
None of this work is limited to one idea or interpretation.
Temptation. Camphor, other wood, copper, rope, lumber. 2006.
The title refers to the Christian story of the Apple and the idea of Original Sin: In the first part of the Christian Bible, the first two people are tempted to eat an apple which had been forbidden by God. They are encouraged to do so by the Devil, in the form of a serpent.
Coalition of the Willing. Camphor, white oak, rope, copper. 2006.
The core concept behind this work is the instability and inherent danger of a way of life based on consumption. The figurative form is fundamentally unable to support itself. The “base” deliberately refers to a gallows.
Yure (specter). White oak, rope. 2006.
A limbless form in a gesture of frustration; giving voice to the voiceless, and connecting this small cycle of works to a specific place, history and time. “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them”, Henry David Thoreau, Walden.
Coalition（連合すること）：
この作品は消費中心の生活は持ちこたえることができないのだというアイデアを扱っています。思慮のなく止まらない消費は人間の暴力一般を引き起こす因となるものだと思います。この作品はすべて人間のイメージあり、そののイメージを作品に用いる際にはジェスチャが一番大切です。人間の形には人間のイメージが含まれています。開いた口ときれいに先のとがった手で表しました。私の制作ではコンセプトと材の選び方は密接に関わっています。
木は肉体です。
金属は統制を象徴しています。
ロープは人の活動のシンボルです。
作品
この作品は何重もの意味を持っています。私の意図は以下にご紹介しますが
他の人にとっては別の意味があるように見えるかもしれません。そのこと興味深はいことと思います。
Temptation（誘惑）。クスノキ、機、銅、ロープ、材木。２００６。
この作品はキリスト教の初めての罪についての物語を象徴しています。キリスト教の聖書の最初の部分で二人の人間が神が禁じるりんごを食べてしまいました。悪魔がヘビの形になって誘惑したためです。
Coalition of the Willing（快く連合すること）。クスノキ、樫、ロープ、銅。２００６。
この作品の中心のコンセプトは、消費中心の生活は不安定でしかも危険だということです。この人間の形は自立出来ません。ですので台座を使用していますがその台座は絞首台象徴しています。
幽霊 （Specter）。樫、ロープ。 ２００６。
フラストレーションを表す身ぶりと手のようで手になりきらない形を象徴しています。声のないの彫刻ですが、声を上げているように見せています。そして、ここにある一連の作品を、ある時と場所とに関連つけています。「ほとんどの人は静かに自暴自棄な生活を送り、歌えなかった歌を心の内に潜めたまま墓場に入る」。（ヘヌリーヂャビド ソロー）。
