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William T. Wiley, âFunk Artistâ Who Spurned Convention, Dies at 83 Rooted in the Bay Area, he disdained commerce (and the New York scene, mostly), produced an eclectic kind of figurative art and imparted his âWiz-dumbâ to disciples. William T. Wiley loaded up his art as if it were his scrapbook, depicting figures, landscapes, perhaps images of nuclear reactors and the despoliation of the natural environment.Credit.William T. Wiley/Hosfelt Gallery By Deborah Solomon Published May 5, 2021Updated May 18, 2021 William T. Wiley, the influential artist and educator who helped found the funk art movement and establish the San Francisco Bay Area art scene as an unfiltered alternative to what he saw as the flagrant commercialism of New York, died on April 25 in a hospital in Greenbrae, Calif. He was 83. ....
Business Spotlight: Tasende Gallery in La Jolla will present the exhibition “Perpetual Provocation” by artist Armando Romero from May 21 to July 3, continuing a 42-year run of showing art at 820 Prospect St. in The Village. The show will include seven paintings, eight sculptures and four drawings that Romero completed primarily during 2006 and 2007, and will exhibit an earlier work, 1988’s “La Ventana Indiscreta,” which has never been shown before. Romero, a Mexican Expressionism artist, is “unquestionably the most brilliant artist today,” said gallery owner Jose Tasende. “The expression, the way he transmits the art is fantastic. I don’t see anybody compare with him today.” ....
The artist William T. Wiley in 1997 Jack Fulton William T. Wiley, a beloved Bay Area artist and teacher and one of the founders of the Funk Art movement which included Peter Saul, Robert Arneson, Ed Kienholz, Bruce Conner, Jim Nutt and others has died, aged 83. His son Ethan Wiley confirmed to that Wiley died from complications related to Parkinson’s disease, which the artist had lived with since 2014. Wiley was born in Bedford, Indiana, in 1937. His father was a construction foreman who frequently moved the family around the country, and they ultimately settled in Washington State. In 1960 Wiley graduated from the California School of Fine Arts (now known as the San Francisco Art Institute), with a bachelor of fine arts degree and in 1962 earned his master of fine arts from the same institution. ....
Tiburon s Gertrud Parker founded Museum of Craft & Folk Art Gertrud Valerie Grossman Parker, an artist and art collector who founded the Museum of Craft and Folk Art in San Francisco, died Jan. 10 of natural causes at her Tiburon home. She was 96. Born Dec. 27, 1924, in Vienna, Austria, Mrs. Parker was the only child of Otto Grossman and Helen Pick Grossman. Her maternal grandfather, Karl Pick, was a member of Austria’s elected parliament and the founder of a labor union for office workers. He was instrumental in establishing modern labor laws as well as workers’ housing and hospitals, according to an essay about Mrs. Parker by art scholar Amy Winter. A building and street in Vienna is named for him, said Mrs. Parker’s son Jonathan. ....