Issue

conceived 1966

William Anastasi

Associated Names
William Anastasi

Sculptor, American, 1933 - 2023

The installation is a vertical sculpture on a wooden floor aligned with the wall. At the bottom, there is a textured cluster. The sculpture is predominantly silver with a slightly reflective surface. It has a linear design contrasting with the smooth white wall behind it, while the bottom has an organic, irregular form. The setting is minimalist, accentuating the sculpture's verticality and texture.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    displaced wall plaster

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Virginia Dwan

  • Dimensions

    overall: 457.2 × 11.43 × 1.27 cm (180 × 4 1/2 × 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.190.2

More About this Artwork

Video:  William Anastasi's Gallery Destruction Creates a Masterpiece

In this video, artist William Anastasi creates his artwork Issue by displacing bits of plaster into a pile.

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

The artist; acquired 1994 by Virginia Dwan, New York;[1] gift 2018 to NGA.
[1] According to the Virginia Dwan Collection/Dwan Gallery Archives, this work was received from the artist in exchange for Mirage of Dining Room, a photographic silk-screened "site" piece made c. 1970 that had begun to deteriorate (see the e-mail of 10/28/2019 from Anne Kovach at the Dwan Archives to Emily Ann Francisco, NGA curatorial associate, in NGA curatorial files).

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2016

  • Los Angeles to New York: Dwan Gallery, 1959-1971, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2016-2017.

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