William Wiley Featured in Bay Area Exhibition
William T. Wiley, who joined the Department of Art faculty in 1962 alongside Wayne Thiebaud, Robert Arneson, Roy De Forest and Manuel Neri, and taught until 1976, is featured in a solo exhibition at San Francisco’s Hosfelt Gallery. “Sculpture, Eyes Wear Tug Odd” reflects the importance of what is perhaps the least known aspect of his output—sculpture—through a range of works spanning the last six decades.
The exhibition runs through May 4 with hours Tuesday, Wednesdays and Fridays, Saturdays: 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. and Thursdays: 11 a.m.-7 p.m. The gallery is located at 260 Utah Street, San Francisco, CA 94103.
Wiley was born in 1937 and moved to San Francisco in 1956 to attend the San Francisco Art Institute (then the California School of Fine Arts). He completed his MFA in 1962, then taught at UC Davis. In 2009 the Smithsonian American Art Museum mounted a retrospective of Wiley’s work that traveled to the Berkeley Art Museum in 2010. In 2013 Wiley was the subject of a major solo exhibition at the Fondazione Marconi in Milan. During the 2013 Venice Biennale, Wiley’s work was included in the Prada Foundation’s remake of the legendary exhibition, When Attitude Becomes Form, originally curated by Harald Szeemann at the Bern Kunsthalle, Switzerland in 1969. Wiley’s paintings, works on paper, sculptures and films are in the permanent collections of prominent public and private collections worldwide.