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KING, BILLY Artist, performance artist, Seattle, San Francisco, 1948 -
Billy King's "Birth of a Chevy," below, was the kick-off event of the Ensemble Street Players' Radical Theater Week at the University of Washington, September, 1969.
He was a featured performer in "The Smut Show," Ensemble Players, below, and performing fellatio on the anatomically-correct stuffed pig in Rochelle Owen's "Futz, and What Came After."
Billy had recently acquired in Seattle a silk-screen machine and he set about experimenting. He made a big mess, of course, but also a lot of great art. In defiance of tradition he numbered everything he did 1/1.
And shaving. Nice.
Billy and his wife Olga, below, performed in the "lunch-time" tableau, "Meet Me At the Soda Fountain," at the Polly Friedlander Gallery in Seattle, 1971.
In 1974, in San Francisco, Billy King organized the memorable art event, "Butt Prints," where he painted the butts of attendees with a roller of blue paint and printed them on a long roll of paper which he then hung around the rooms. Memorable.
Later that year, back in Seattle.
In 1975, he posed at the Woolworth's counter for a special Christmas greeting.
This photgraph, below, accompanied Billy's press release for his Open Studio in Pioneer Square, Seattle, May, 1984.
His pastel drawing on an historic blackboard, below, was featured in the glossy, Northwest Living magazine, 1988.
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