OBJECT ARCHIVE AND EXCAVATION PROGRAM

BON VIVANT ARTIST, JAMES J. WILLIAMS, AGREES TO AUCTION POSSESSIONS IN A BOLDLY UNCONVENTIONAL STYLE

Anyone familiar with our artist's highly-improvisational approach to timely rent-paying are never surprised by the impetuous maneuvering of Brooklyn's native son, James J. Williams III, but even those closest to him are strangely puzzled and intrigued by his latest undertaking.

With the cooperation of envoy and the James J. Williams III Historical Society, Jimmy has gathered many of his most cherished possessions, assembled them into distinctly-curated collections, and put them up for non-auction sale.

Like everything Jimmy does, the art resides in the act as much as the object, but on this occasion, both aspects are super-sized beyond recognition. Everyday items, luxurious grandeur and exhausted trinkets form a parade of textures and words and sounds and sensation.

And so we find ourselves here, on a sweltering summer day in New York, a day when old men sit in front of a fan and listen to the ballgame on radio. These collections are so timeless, you'll feel like a kid playing in the spray of an opened fire hydrant, only instead of the water, it'll be a bunch of stuff jimmy once had.