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 William Monje has been a professional artist all of his life. He attended the Arizona School of Art in Phoenix where he was a student of the master portrait and figure painter Jo Rogozon. William began practicing art professionally by painting portraits and illustrating commercially, but soon discovered his career in scenic art and set design for the stage. In Phoenix he was art director for the Arizona State Fairgrounds for about 12 years where he also designed numerous commercial displays. During that same period he also served as set designer and/or technical director and/or scenic artist for several community theatres and organizations including The Phoenix Little Theatre, The Arizona Repertory Theatre, The Phoenix Musical Theatre, The Scottsdale Players, and The Sombrero Playhouse.
Eventually he moved to Los Angeles, mostly to pursue a career as a fine artist, most specifically erotic art, but also pursuing writing. He worked for what were then called “underground newspapers,” beginning as an illustrator, but eventually writing and even editing. While continuing to work as a set designer and scenic artist, expanding some into TV and movies, he soon discovered his fine art was well received at art fairs and street shows, which is how he made his living for the remainder of his active art career. Over the course of that period he has sold his work to private collectors and dealers from all over the country, in Europe, Japan, Canada, Mexico, and South America.
Ultimately, due to arthritis and other disabling maladies, he ceased active participation in marketing his art, and eventually pretty much retired from producing and selling his artwork. For a period he turned instead to his other talent of writing, publishing e-book novels and becoming a produced playwright. After an extended period of inactivity and increasing illness, however, he had a near fatal heart attack.
After forty-five days in intensive care, barely hanging onto life, kept alive by a device that kept his heart beating in spite of its virtually destroyed condition, he received a heart transplant. Now, with a new lease on life, William has come out of retirement to make his artwork available as giclée prints online. He is also pursuing sculpting and has several pieces in bronze presented as limited editions. |
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