NEW YORK, NY.- Paul Kasmin Gallery presents William N. Copley X-RATED, a large-scale recreation of the artists 1974 exhibition in the former Huntington Hartford Museum on Columbus Circle. Highly original, libidinous, and unapologeticly joyful, the paintings were unlike anything being made at that time. This body of work, painted between 1972 and 1974, represents a pivotal leap in the artists style and is rich with irreverent yet ambitious compositions, unbridled combinations of highly-keyed colors, and generous doses of off-beat humor. CPLY (the artists self-chosen moniker) here presents single figures, pairs, and the occasional grouptheir gestures and actions translated from magazines procured in seedy 42nd street emporiumsposing and coupling eagerly amid vivid arrays of abstract patterns and lyrical motifs, romping furniture,