William Anastasi

William Anastasi (b.1933, USA) is one of the founders of Conceptual Art with solid connections in his earliest works to Minimalism. His exhibits "Sound Objects", 1964-65 and "Six Sites", 1966/67, set the stage for exhibitions under the eventually widely used term 'Site Specific'. In the last four and a half decades this genre has developed into a veritable industry.  Even before those two mold breaking exhibitions Anastasi had developed his signature innovation of the use of process in what he refers to as his "unsighted drawings".  They were begun in 1963 and are ongoing in continually developing strategies. They are typically keyed to the body -- the pocket drawings and other stationary unsigted works, or to the space in which they were made -- Six Sites and Continuum. Of all the Conceptualists and Minimalists, Anastasi is virtually alone as one who, since the '60's, has consistently pushed the boundaries of the medium of drawing.  His lead has been followed by many -- even  to the adoption of specific genres he has invented.

William Anastasi has since 1988 exhibited through Stalke Galleri.

View: Print Editions from 1988-2011

Robert Brennan on William Anastasi
Gering and López Gallery
John Cage Award 2010
William Anastasi: Christie´s Auction
William Anastasi with Phong Bui, 2007
NewaArt Tv
MOMA Collection
William Anastasi by William Powhidi
me altat´s egoes, Slought Foundation
Video: Drawing Blind
William Anastasi, Peter Blum Chensea
Kristin Holder on William Anastasi
Galleri Mazzoli
The Brooklyn Rail


Video: Subway Drawings, Copenhagen-Holte 1999
Video: NewArt TV, Drawing Blind 2009

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William Anstasi, Stalke Galleri 2004

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