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WILLIAM T. WILEY
This is the official website of the William T. Wiley Estate. William T. Wiley (1937–2021) is considered one of the premier California artists of the past 65 years, associated with the celebrated UC Davis Art faculty and renowned Bay Area Funk Art movement.
July 7, 2025 - Sept 3, 2025
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ARTFORUM feature article
April 2019
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HUMANLY POSSIBLE
Dan Nadel on the art of William T. Wiley
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"Among Wiley's earliest graduate students was Bruce Nauman, who arrived in 1964. Nauman embraced Wiley's use of rough, found materials, wordplay, and life-is-art-art-is-life ethos, while Wiley took in Nauman's cerebral, proto-Conceptual approach to what an art object could be, epitomized in the younger artist's untitled fiberglass-and-polyester-resin sculptures."
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