William T. Wiley

William T. Wiley ( born October 21, 1937 in Bedford, Indiana, USA, lives in San Francisco, California) is an American contemporary artist, graphic designer, concept artist and illustrator, known for his " Funky- type " assemblages.

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. .; at the University of Nevada at Reno, 1967; at Washington State College, Pullman, 1967; at the University of California at Berkeley, 1967; at the School of Visual Art, New York, 1968; at the University of Colorado at Boulder, in 1968 and at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

William Wiley and Robert Arneson heard, Bruce Nauman and Roy DeForest to the core of the Bay Area Funk Movement. He is one of the most influential artists of the San Francisco Bay Area of the 1970 year, the dissatisfied showed up with the limitations of pure abstraction in painting and art and the development of an idiosyncratic and introspective art - as a counter-movement to Pop Art - began. Wiley uses a wide range of materials to " non-traditional " art and his autobiographical to create " funky " assemblages. He is a versatile artist who has studied painting, sculpture, watercolor painting, printmaking, installations, theater events, projects and conceptual film art.

William Wiley was with some images participant in Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 in the Department of Individual mythologies. He has up to the present day world exhibitions in major museums and galleries.

His pictures have appeared 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 include world.

Literature and sources

  • Exhibition catalog: documentation fifth survey of reality - imagery today; Catalog (as folders ) Volume 1: (material); Volume 2: ( list of exhibits ); Kassel in 1972
  • Documenta Archive (ed. ); Resubmission d5 - A survey of the archive to the documenta, 1972; Kassel / Ostfildern 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1121- X
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