WILLIAM ASMAN | Archival Ink
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Q&A with William
1. What is your chosen medium?
Ink.
2. How did you start your career in art?
I was interested in art all my life. My father was an artist, as well. I studied at the School of Visual Arts in NYC.
3. What informs your art?
Shapes that form a pleasing composition suggest a subject that is then built upon.
4. What jobs you have worked other than as a professional artist?
Cook, mechanic, courier, phone company, and accuracy control.
5. What questions do you ask yourself when starting to work?
How can my technique and what forms can be used to define the subject best?
6. Do you have a quote that’s important to you displayed in your studio? If so, what is it?
“Art is a lie that reveals the truth” --Picasso
7. Which artist (living or not) would you most like to invite for dinner? What would you serve?
Picasso. Paella.
8. What has been your most unusual request for your art?
Asked if I would do a portrait of a dog, I don’t do portraits, let alone of a dog. Nothing against dogs :)
9. What music are you listening to these days?
Mostly blues, although I listen to a wide variety of music depending on my mood.
10. What is on your nightstand?
Books: Killers of the Flower Moon, River of Doubt, and Warhol.
“I don’t know what it’s going to be when I start. It can be anything. I find something that fits in the focal part – it might be something I’ve been thinking about or it might be just something that pops into my head. Then I build around it with things that relate as I follow the composition that I originally started out with.”
About William
Born and raised in in New Jersey, William began exploring two-dimensional space at a young age, but continued to make art on the side while working a variety of other jobs. Since moving to Weaverville, North Carolina, and retiring, he continues to work as an artist – now full-time – creating images that he has termed “pictorial super-realism,” drawn with archival inks on acid-free illustration board, overlapping images to form a sense of three-dimensional space.