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William T. Wiley, ‘Funk Artist’ 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 “Wiz-dumb” 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 ...

Sam Whiting April 28, 2021Updated: April 28, 2021, 8:00 pm Artist William Wiley is interviewed in 1996 at his Woodacre studio in Marin County. Photo: Jerry Telfer, The Chronicle 1996 William T. Wiley — a founder of the Bay Area Funk art movement who expanded into every medium and style of creation from watercolor to printmaking to giant sculptures in a career that lasted from 1960 until just a few months ago — died Sunday, April 25, at Marin General Hospital. His death was due to complications from Parkinson’s disease, which he’d suffered from since 2014, said his son, Et...