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On this page from Drawing Papers 70 you will find Untitled,first created in 1966 by William Anastasi from one gallon of industrial high-gloss enamel thrown at a wall.
The 2007 exhibition William Anastasi: Raw recreated seminal site-specific works dating from the mid-1960s. These early pieces were a testament to the artist's interest and pioneering efforts in site-specific projects, as well as in the medium of drawing. The artworks incisively explored the nature and behavior of drawing in the gallery space through different strategies, bringing to the surface questions about site and medium specificity, materiality, and the dematerialization of the art object. Instructions for the Untitled were as follows: Standing on a floor at a five-foot distance from a wall fling one gallon of paint high at the wall.
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