Selected Literature

“Looking at William Anastasi's art is a process, above all, of seeing with new eyes and digesting new whys.”

Gordon Douglas (Writer, living and working in New York City)

Anastasi is one of the founders, indeed before the movements were named, of both Conceptual Art and Minimal Art, which questions traditional readings of the object in terms of style or medium. Creating a new set of values by which to judge art, the conceptual artist asks viewers to question exactly what art is. Anastasi's work often emphasizes his thoughts on the act of "not seeing" and chance; the artist frequently blindfolds himself and limits the production time of his works.

Anastasi's work is committed to the sublime, a condition where attraction and repulsion emerge simultaneously which can only be entirely admitted with the employment of cognitive dissidence such an un-reconciled awareness yields an enticingly complex emotional reaction.