California, Nebraska. 1930 - 2007
Modernist naive drollery painting, funk collage
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1937 Bedford, Indiana - 2021 Greenbrae, California. Known for: Abstraction, funk art,caligraphy, teaching.
A significant figure in the Bay Area Figurative movement of the San Francisco, Oakland, California area, William Wiley along with Robert Arneson is regarded as a pivotal artist in the transition... Read full biography
A significant figure in the Bay Area Figurative movement of the San Francisco, Oakland, California area, William Wiley along with Robert Arneson is regarded as a pivotal artist in the transition between the Funk Art of the 1950s rooted in Abstract Expressionism and the more self-conscious, overt... Read full biography
A significant figure in the Bay Area Figurative movement of the San Francisco, Oakland, California area, William Wiley along with Robert Arneson is regarded as a pivotal artist in the transition between the Funk Art of the 1950s rooted in Abstract Expressionism and the more self-conscious, overt Funk Art that followed. He was also a popular teacher at the University of California at Davis. Reviewer Hilton Kramer in 1971 referred to Wiley's work as "Dude Ranch Dada," and he became the leading... Read full biography
A significant figure in the Bay Area Figurative movement of the San Francisco, Oakland, California area, William Wiley along with Robert Arneson is regarded as a pivotal artist in the transition between the Funk Art of the 1950s rooted in Abstract Expressionism and the more self-conscious, overt Funk Art that followed. He was also a popular teacher at the University of California at Davis. Reviewer Hilton Kramer in 1971 referred to Wiley's work as "Dude Ranch Dada," and he became the leading inspiration for conceptualists who asserted that their life is art. He was anxious to escape what he perceived as the deadly serious, highly self-conscious symbolism of Abstract Expressionism and borrow ideas from many sources including Zen Buddhism.... Read full biography
A significant figure in the Bay Area Figurative movement of the San Francisco, Oakland, California area, William Wiley along with Robert Arneson is regarded as a pivotal artist in the transition between the Funk Art of the 1950s rooted in Abstract Expressionism and the more self-conscious, overt Funk Art that followed. He was also a popular teacher at the University of California at Davis. Reviewer Hilton Kramer in 1971 referred to Wiley's work as "Dude Ranch Dada," and he became the leading inspiration for conceptualists who asserted that their life is art. He was anxious to escape what he perceived as the deadly serious, highly self-conscious symbolism of Abstract Expressionism and borrow ideas from many sources including Zen Buddhism. From Richland, Washington, William Wiley credited his high school art teacher, Jim Mc Grath, with giving focus to his early interest in ar... Read full biography
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Slide 1 of 3: Monument for Union Oil and Pacific Wild Life , 1969
Monument for Union Oil and Pacific Wild Life , 1969
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All Saints Ball , 1977
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Crew Dark and the Captain's Crackers
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Oregon, California. 1943 - 2013
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California. 1941 - 1998
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California, Ohio. Born 1929
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California, Arizona. 1920 - 2008
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California. Born 1928
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California, New Jersey. Born 1954
Painting, printmaking, digital media, photography
California. 1938 - 2008
Human figure and memorial sculpture
California. 1930 - 2021
Bay Area figurative sculpture, sketches
California. 1932 - 2020
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California. 1920 - 2019
Modernist naive-views, non objective painting, printmaking
California, New York. 1933 - 2004
Large-scale clay figure sculptures
California, Florida. Born 1946
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California, Ontario / Canada. 1944 - 2002
Old Master style painting-portraits
Illinois, New York. Born 1949
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California, Ohio. 1931 - 2019
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New Mexico, California. 1937 - 2025
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New York. Born 1949
Mod-biotic expression, abstraction, printmaking, collage
California, Michigan. Born 1923
Kinetic sculpture in public places
California. 1928 - 2010
Abstract figurative painting, graphics
Illinois. Born 1940
Modernist figural whimsey, imagist painting
California, New York / China. Born 1933
Large scale geometric sculpture, drawings
California. Born 1943
Mod imagery, sculpture
California. 1916 - 1991
Modernist figure, abstract painting, teaching
California. 1928 - 2016
Super real genre-figure, still life
New York. Born 1943
Distorted mod genre, figure
California. 1924 - 2002
Sculptor-ceramic, abstraction
New York. 1941 - 2025
Abstract geometric sculpture, minimalism, abstract drawing
California, New Mexico / Mexico. 1938 - 2022
Abstract landscape, portrait and history-themed painting