As an artist with a family history of Alzheimer’s, William Demaria is deeply interested in the concept of memory, specifically the way things are remembered. He sees the landscape as a medium for conveying human emotion and he finds evidence of the past present in the landscape, or the way memory is preserved in the landscape, to be captivating. Demaria largely is interested in exploring what remains of the movement of glaciers that carved the landscape over thousands of years and finding human stories in overlooked aspects of the developed landscape. He draws a parallel between the sculptural quality of carved copper plates and the earth carved by glaciers. The brutal chemical burns and chaotic reactions found in etching reminds him of weathered concrete and rust. Demaria is drawn to intaglio printmaking because of these material characteristics and the sculptural quality of the final impression.

Demaria was born on Long Island, New York, in 1998. He earned a BFA at Cornell University in 2020 and was a printer at Universal Limited Art Editions from 2020 to 2023. He lives and works in Baltimore, MD.