WILLIAM T. WILEY LITHOGRAPH ARTIST PROOF FUNK ART SAN FRANCISCO CA CHICAGO IL NY

Description: William T. Wiley 1937-2021, American "Checking It All Out," 1972 Color lithograph on paper under Glass, Edition: Artist Proof IV/X; signed, dated and numbered in the lower margin: Wm T. Wiley 72; David Keister and Larry Seibold, prntrs; Landfall Press, Inc., Santa Fe, NM, pub., with their blindstamp in the lower left margin corner, 22 x 30 inches, larger frame, Literature:Richardson p. 27; Landfall Press WTW72-260, Condition:Brilliant colors with minor light staining emanating from back, Chicagoland origin BIO William T. Wiley. October 21, 1937 - April 25, 2021 Wiley was raised in Indiana,Texas, andRichland, Washington. In high school, his highly influential art teacher, James McGrath, recognized Wiley's talent and encourage him to pursue an art career. Wiley received a full-ride scholarship to theCalifornia School of Fine Arts(later to become the San Francisco Art Institute), along with fellow high school friends Robert Hudson and William Allan, who also received scholarships to the school. There he earned his BFA in 1960 and his MFA two years later. In 1963, Wiley joined the faculty of theUC Davisart department withBay Area Funk MovementartistsRobert Arneson,Roy DeForest, and Pop artist Wayne Thiebaud. During that time Wiley instructed students, includingBruce Nauman,Deborah Butterfield, Richard Shaw, Stephen Kaltenbach andStephen Laub. According toDan Graham, the literary, punning element of Nauman's work came from Wiley. Wiley also acknowledges the effect Nauman had on his own work. His first solo exhibition was held at theSan Francisco Museum of Modern Artin 1960. In the late 1960s Wiley collaborated with the minimalist composerSteve Reich and created the album artwork for Reich's first major record label release, "Violin Phase". Over the course of his career, Wiley has pursued artistic expression in almost every conceivable medium, from watercolors, paintings, collage, found object constructions, sculpture and printmaking, to music, performance art, theater and film. He collaborated on several films with filmmaker Robert Nelson, including "The Off-Handed Jape", and the avant-garde epic, "The Great Blondino". He has collaborated with the San Francisco Mime Troupe and R.G. Davis in both theater and film. He has created art projects with Robert Hudson, William Allan, Richard Shaw and Terry Allen. He produced a series of popular avant-garde theatrical shows at UC Davis titled, "Out Our Way". Wiley continued to build upon his growing stature as a major artist with works appearing in theVenice Biennial(1980) andWhitney Biennial(1983). He also had major exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1981),M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco (1996), and theCorcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (2005). In 2009, theSmithsonian American Art Museumpresented a retrospective of Wiley's career titled,What's It All Mean: William T. Wiley in Retrospect, from October 2, 2009 through January 24, 2010. A review in the Wall Street Journal stated: "Mr. Wiley's work is unlike any other in recent art... He is less a contemporary artist than a national treasure." In 2010, the retrospective moved to the Berkeley Art Museum, from March 17 to July 18. The catalogue for the retrospective,"What's It All Mean: William T. Wiley in Retrospect", was co-published by the Smithsonian American Art Museum and University of California Press. Recently Wiley has exhibited with the Parker Gallery in Los Angeles, and in 2019 had his third solo show with the Hosfelt Gallery, in San Francisco: "Sculpture, Eyes Wear Tug Odd." In 2020, Parker Gallery presented a survey of Wiley's artwork from the 1960s to present day in NYC, "Real Eye On Change". Also in 2020, Wiley was featured in the "Pop, Minimal and Figurative Art" show at SFMOMA, with an exhibit titled "Con-Fusion-Ism" curated by Zully Adler. IN 2021, Wiley's first posthumous gallery show, "Monumental", was exhibited at the Hosfelt Gallery. In 2022, "William T. Wiley and the Slant Step: All On The Line" debuted at the UC Davis Manetti Shrem Museum, curated by Dan Nadel. Among the many public collections holding works by William T. Wiley are theWhitney Museum of American Art,the Museum of Modern Art (New York),the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,theArt Institute of Chicago, theSmithsonian American Art Museum(Washington, D.C.), theMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston, theVan Abbemuseum(Eindhoven, Netherlands), theWalker Art Center(Minneapolis), the San Jos Musuem of Art, theBaltimore Museum of Art, theDi Rosa Center for Contemporary Art(Napa, California), theDallas Museum of Art, theDenver Art Museum, theHonolulu Museum of Art, theMinneapolis Institute of Arts,, theNew Britain Museum of American Art(New Britain, Connecticut), theNelson-Atkins Museum(Kansas City, Missouri), and thePhiladelphia Museum of Art. He was the recipient of theGuggenheim FellowshipAward in 2004. Source: williamtwileydotcom Thanks for looking.

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