William Wiley

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William T. Wiley 2006 in San Francisco

William T. Wiley (born October 21, 1937 in Bedford , Indiana , USA ) is an American contemporary painter , graphic artist , conceptual artist and draftsman , known for his "funky art" assemblages . He lives in San Francisco .

life and work

William Wiley studied at the San Francisco Art Institute until 1962. He was an associate professor at the University of California at Davis from 1962 to 1973. He taught art at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1963 and from 1966 to 1967; from the University of Nevada at Reno , 1967; Washington State College, Pullman, 1967; at the University of California at Berkeley , 1967; at the School of Visual Arts , New York, 1968; at the University of Colorado Boulder , 1968 and at the University of Wisconsin – Madison .

William Wiley had his first solo exhibitions in 1960 at the Staempfli Gallery, New York City and the San Francisco Museum of Art .

William Wiley belongs to the core of the Bay Area Funk Movement along with Robert Arneson , Bruce Nauman and Roy DeForest . He was one of the influential artists of the San Francisco Bay Area of ​​the 1970s, who were dissatisfied with the limits of pure abstraction in painting and art and who began to develop idiosyncratic and introspective art - also as a counter-movement to Pop Art . Wiley uses a wide range of materials to create "untraditional" art and his autobiographical "funky" assemblages . He is a versatile artist who has dealt with painting , sculpture , watercolor painting , printmaking , installations , theater events, conceptual projects and cinematographic art .

William Wiley participated in Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 in the Individual Mythologies department with some of his pictures . To this day he has exhibitions in major museums and galleries around the world.

His pictures are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City , the Art Institute of Chicago , the Whitney Museum of American Art , the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art , the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven , the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC and other museums worldwide. William T. Wiley was elected a member ( NA ) of the National Academy of Design in 1994.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nationalacademy.org: Living Academicians "W" ( Memento from August 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed April 7, 2015)

Literature and Sources

  • Exhibition catalog: documenta 5. Survey of Reality - Imagery Today ; Catalog (as a file folder) Volume 1: (Material); Volume 2: (list of exhibits); Kassel 1972
  • documenta archive (ed.); Resubmission d5 - A survey of the archive on documenta 1972 ; Kassel / Ostfildern 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1121-X

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personal data
SURNAME Wiley, William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wiley, William T.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter and conceptual artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Bedford, Indiana, USA