William Anastasi

http://williamanastasi.net/Welcome.htm 4-11-2012William Anastasi is one of the founders of both Conceptual and Minimal Art -- relevant works were made before the movements were named. These works, starting in 1961, include Relief and Microphone, among the earliest examples of Conceptual Art. Between 1963 and 1966, we have Sink -- a clear demonstration of entropy -- and Issue and Trespass -- important forerunners to an entire class of works involving deconstruction. Sink (which combines his Conceptual and Minimal approaches) and En Route, are among the earliest forays into Minimal Art. Holding that after Duchamp there was no earthly reason why a blind man could not be an artist, his unsighted drawings were also started in 1963. His 1966/67 Six Sites broke the ground for an entire genre of exhibitions under the rubric Site Specific. Underlying his practice is his sense that the only thing that interests him about taste is that it is always changing. PUBLIC COLLECTIONS (Selected) Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY The Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia Museum Jewish Art, Philadelphia, PA Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI The Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD The Phoenix Museum of Art, AZ The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA The Aldrich Museum of Art, Ridgefield, CT J. B. Speed Museum, Louisville, KY Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME The Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Greensboro, NC The Jewish Museum, New York, NY The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN The Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA The Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA The Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO Oklahoma City Art Museum, OK Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA The Greenstein Museum, Seattle, WA Rutgers University, Newark, NJ Cooperfund Collection, Oak Brook, IL The Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY The First National Bank of Seattle, Seattle, WA Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT Le Witt Collection, Chester, CT Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL University Art Museum, the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, VA Progressive Contemporary Collection, Cleveland, OH Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT The Morgan Literary Museum, New York, NY Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DEMONOGRAPHS William Anastasi, Essay by Richard Milazzo, Galleria Contemporanea, Emilio, Mazzoli, Modena, Italy, 2009 William Anastasi, Drawing Papers, 70 A Word, words, The Drawing Center, 2007 William Anastasi’s Pataphysical Society: Jarry, Joyce, Duchamp and Cage,, Edited by Aaron Levy and Jean-Michel Rabate, Philadelphia Slought Books, Contemporary Artist’s Series No. 3, 2005 William Anastasi, Jakob Lillemose, Copenhagen, Cologne, Hamburg, Stalke, Rehbein, Art Agents, 2004 William Anastasi: The Painting of the Word Jew, Stalke Out of Space, Copenhagen, and Sandra Gering Gallery, NY, 1997. Hanhardt, John and Eileen Neff, William Anastasi: A Retrospective, 1960-1995, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA, 1995. William Anastasi: Works from 1961 to 1995, The Pier Gallery, Stromness, Scotland, 1995. William Anastasi: Sink, 1963; Trespass, 1966; Issue, 1966; Incision, 1966, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, 1991. William Anastasi: Selections of the Work from 1960-1989, Scott Hanson Gallery, NY, 1989. BOOKS & EXHIBITION CATALOGUES 560 Broadway, A New York Drawing Collection at Work, 1991-2006, Fifth Floor Foundation, New York & Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2008 pp. 17, 23, 46-47, 141 McEvilley, Thomas, Wall Ceiling Floor at the Birmingham Museum of Art, William Anastasi, Donald Judd, Fred Sandback, Birmingham, AL, 2007 The Triumph of Anti-Art, by Thomas McEvilley, McPherson and Company, New York, 2005, pp. 104-135. Drawing From The Modern, 1945-1975, Museum of Modern Art, 2005, p.178 Lerm Hayes, Christa-Maria, Joyce In Art, Visual Art Inspired by James Joyce, Lilliput Press, Dublin, 2005 Nothing Less Than Literal/ Architecture After Minimalism, MIT Press, 2004, p. 94. Master Works of the Jewish Museum, Untitled (jew) by Norman Kleeblat, Jewish Museum, 2004, pp. 188, 189. Work Ethic, The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2003/05, Helen Molesworth, Julia Bryan-Wilson , pp. 109 – 111 Especies D’Espais Des Especes d’espaces, Centre d’Art Contemporani, Toronto, Canada, 2003/04 pp. 52, 53 The Invisible Thread, Newhouse Center For Contemporary Art, 2003/4, by William Anastasi, p.18, 19 Infinite Possibilities: Serial Imagery in Twentieth Century Drawings, Davis Museum and Cultural Center Press, Wellesley, MA, 2003, pp. 52, 53. Anastasi Bradshaw Cage, Jacob Lillemose, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark, 2001, pp. 42-56. Conceptual Art Today, Pittsburg Center for the Arts, 2001 Ratcliff, Carter, Out of the Box: The Reinvention of Art 1965-1975, Allworth Press, 2000 pp. 58, 64, 103. End Papers, Drawings 1890-1900 and 1990-2000, curated by Judy Collischan, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, NY, 2000, p.24 After Image: Drawing Through Process, curated by Cornelia H. Butler, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1999 pp. 11, 12, 46,139. Hayden-Guest, Anthony, True Colors, The Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, 1998, p. 96. Merce Cunningham: Fifty Years, Aperture Foundation, NY, 1997, p. 226, 227, 229, 231, 232, 235, 238, 252. Morgan, Robert C., Between Modernism and Conceptual Art, McFarland & Company, Inc. Publications, Jefferson, N.C. and London, 1997, p. 156-159. Rugoff, Ralph, Scene of the Crime, UCLA and Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, and MIT Press, Cambridge, MA , London, England, 1997 Drawing is Another Kind of Language, Harvard University Art Museum, 1997, p. 24, 25. Klangs Skulpturen Augen Musik, Koblenz, Ludwig Museum, 1995, p.36-39 Anastasi, William with Michael Seidel, “Jarry in Joyce: A Conversation,” Joyce Studies Annual, Edited by Thomas F. Staley, University of Texas Press, Austin, 1995. Bayer Collection of Contemporary Art, Bayer Corporation, White Oak Publishing LTD, Sewickly, PA, 1995, pp. 4,5. Morgan, Robert C., “Environment, Site, Displacement,” After the Deluge: Essays on Art in the Nineties, New York: Red Bass, 1993, p.72. Looking Critically: 21 Years of ArtForum Magazine, Brian O’Doherty, “Inside The White Cube”, Notes on the gallery space Part One: pp. 188-193., ArtFroum, New York, 1984 School of Visual Arts Fine Arts Faculty, SVA Press LTD, New York, 1982, pp. 6-7 Battcock, Gregory, Breaking the Sound Barrier, Dutton, NY, 1981. Open To New Ideas, Georgia Museum of Art, 1976-1977, p.4, 5. Battcock, Gregory, Why Art: Casual Notes on the Aesthetics of the Immediate Past, Dutton, NY, 1977 Lippard, Lucy, Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966- 1972, 1972, p.25 Battcock, Gregory, Idea Art - A Critical Anthology, Dutton, NY, 1973. Third Salon International de Galeries Pilots Artists et docouvreurs de notre temps, Lausanne/Paris, 1970, p.134. Battcock, Gregory, Minimal Art - A Critical Anthology, Dutton, NY, 1968, pp. 21, 31, 407. Betty Parsons’ Private Collection, Finch College Museum of Art, New York, 1968AWARDS The John Cage Award, 2010, given biennially SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2010 William Anastasi, John Cage Award (Biennial Award) 2009 William Anastasi, Emilio Mazzoli Gallery, Modena, Italy William Anastasi Retrospective, curator: Inge Merete Kjeldgaard, The Esberg Museum of Modern Art, Esbjerg, Denmark 2008 Opposites Are Identical, Peter Blum Gallery (Chelsea), New York 2007 William Anastasi, Raw [Seven works from 1963 to 1966], The Drawing Center, New York William Anastasi, Paintings and drawings, Michael Benevento, The Orange Group, Los Angeles 2006 William Anastasi, Bjorn Ressle Fine Art, New York William Anastasi, Baumgartner Gallery, New York 2005 Drawings 1970-2005, Stalke Gallery, Copenhagen Blind, art agents, Hamburg William Anastasi, Rehbein Gallery, Cologne 2004 William Anastasi, SolwayJones, Los Angeles 2003 Blind, The Annex, NY 2001 William Anastasi: 1961-2000: A Retrospective at the Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen 2000 William Anastasi, art agents, Hamburg 1999 ...vor mehr alseinem halben Jahrhundert, Landes Museum, Linz, Germany Drawings, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, NY 1998 I Am A Jew, The Philadelphia Museum of Judaica, Philadelphia, PA 1997 The Painting of the Word Jew, Sandra Gering Gallery, NY William Anastasi, Hubert Winter Gallery, Vienna, Austria 1996 William Anastasi, Stalke Kunsthandel, Copenhagen, Denmark 1995 William Anastasi: A Retrospective, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia William Anastasi, The Pier Gallery, Orkney, Scotland Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia, PA, ten manuscript pages from me innerman monophone: Jarry in Joyce, shown alternating with the first ten manuscript pages of James Joyce’s Ulysses William Anastasi, Anders Tornberg, Lund, Sweden William Anastasi: A Retrospective (1960-95), Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA Abandoned Paintings, Sandra Gering Gallery, NY 1994 Kristal Fahl Gallery, Stockholm me innerman monophone, oeuvre conceptuelle, exhibition of original manuscript and paper given on “Jarry in Joyce” at the Sorbonne, Paris 1993 Du Jarry, exhibition of original manuscript, Sandra Gering Gallery, NY Drawing Sounds: An Installation in Honor of John Cage, the Philadelphia Museum of Art 1992 Works 1963-1992, Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund, Sweden 1991 “Sink, Trespass, Issue, Incision, Sandra Gering Gallery, NY 1990 Incidents and Coincidents A Retrospective, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana 1989 A Selection of Works form 1960 to 1989, The Scott Hanson Gallery, NY, accompanied by a catalogue The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh 1988 Bess Cutler Gallery, NY Stalke Galleri, Copenhagen 1987 Bess Cutler Gallery, NY 1982 Diary Paintings, Ericson Gallery 1981 Coincidents, the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY Collapse, Sculpture for a Public Space (commissioned by the museum, exhibited at the Lincoln Center Complex), the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY 1979 Re-visions: Perspectives and Proposals in Film and Video, the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY Coincidents, Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf, Germany 1978 Terminus, the Hudson River Museum, NY Max Hetzler, Stutttgart 1977 P.S. 1 Museum, the Institute of Art and Urban Resources, NY 1973 O.K. Harris Gallery, NY 1970 Continuum, Dwan Gallery, NY Three Conic Sections, Dwan Gallery, NY 1967 Six Sites, Dwan Gallery, NY 1966 Sound Objects, Dwan Gallery, NY 1965 Witherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina 1964 Washington Square Gallery, NYARTISTIC ADVISOR TO THE MERCE CUNNINGHAM DANCE COMPANY Appointed along with Dove Bradshaw Phrases, 1984, World première, Theatre Municipal d’Angers, Angers France. Music: David Vaughn; Design: William Anastasi; Bradshaw Native Green, 1985, World première, City Center. Music: John King; Design: William Anastasi; Bradshaw: Lighting for stage Grange Eve, World premiere, City Center Theater, New York, Music: Takehisa Kosugi; Décor , Costumes and Lighting: William Anastasi Points In Space, 1986, World Premiere, BBC Television, Music: John Cage; Décor: William Anastasi; Costumes: Dove Bradshaw Points In Space, 1990, commissioned by Rudolf Nureyev, Opera de Paris Garnier, Paris, Music: John Cage; Décor: William Anastasi; Costumes: Dove Bradshaw Fielding Sixes, 1986, World Premiere City Center Thearer, New York, Music: John Cage; Décor, Costumes and Lighting: William Anastasi Shards, 1987, World Premiere, City Center Theater, New York, Music” David Tudor; Décor and Lighting: William Anastasi Eleven, 1988, World Premiere Joyce Theater, New york, Music: Robert Ashley; Décor, Costumes and Lighting, William Anastasi Events, 1989, World Premiere, Grand Central Station, New York, Music: David Tudor; Costumes: William Anastasi and Dove Bradshaw Polarity, 1990, World Premiere, Citly Center Theater, New York, Music: David Tudor; Décor from drawings by Merce Cunningham, Costumes and Lighting, William Anastasi PERFORMANCES 2002 Celebrate John Cage, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, NY 1997 William Anastasi: Printed Out, the Mattress Factory Museum, Pittsburgh, PA 1995 me innerman monophone, Aktion Fete du Printemps, NY William Anastasi, Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund, Sweden 1987 This, The Danheiser Foundation 1982 Plants and Waiters, produced at Princeton University by the Princeton Players, Princeton, NJ 1980 Plants and Waiters, a play by William Anastasi, The Amphitheatre, The School of Visual Arts, NY, Mar. 6, 13, 20 1979 A Peeling, I Forgive Sleep, Coincidents, 3 performances by William Anastasi, The Visual Arts Museum, NY, Nov. 6, 13, 20 1978 You Are (Three Evenings from William Anastasi), narrated by Les Levine, Feb. 10; Carl Keilblock, Feb. 11; John Cage, Feb 12 The Clocktower, NY You Are (Three Evenings from William Anastasi), narrated by William Anastasi, The Visual Arts Museum, NY You Are narrated by William Anastasi, Madama Francesca Allenovi (Italian), Arte Fiera Bologna, Italy, Palachi dei Congressi, Bologna, Italy LECTURES 2007 William Anastasi: Works, Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art, Pont-Aven, France 2006 William Anastasi’s Pataphysical Society, Jarry, Joyce, Duchamp and Cage, Art and Science Department, University of Pennsylvania 2005 Anastasi Bradshaw Cage Cunningham; Friendship and Collaboration, Gallery Talk at the opening of Anastasi Bradshaw Cage Cunningham, The University Art Gallery, The University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 2004 The Museum of Modern Art, New York Anastasi Bradshaw Cage Cunningham; A Conversation, Gallery Talk at the opening of Anastasi Bradshaw Cage Cunningham, The Bayly Art Museum, The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA Public Conversation With William Anastasi and Jean-Michel Rabate, Feb. 28th at the Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia 2003 Test Art after The Silence, Davison Arts Center, Middletown, CT 2001 The Legacy of John Cage, Speakers, William Anastasi, Dove Bradshaw, Carol Hamilton, Associate Professor of English, Carnegie Mellon University, Michael Olijnyk, moderator, The Mattress Factory Museum, Pittsburgh 2000 The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY