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Out of the Depths

The Art of David Wiley

"There are many paradoxes about being an artist. For instance, the artists is always searching for patterns, like the scientific investigator he partly is; and at the same time he is trying, sometimes desperately, to escape patterns, like the dreamer and adventurer he partly is. So many things are pulling at us all the time, wanting us to go every which-way. But as long as we feel that our aim is straight these temptations are not an annoyance but a pleasure, so long as they don't overwhelm us. I find that now and then I have to stop and blink my eyes and take aim all over again.But it's always at that same unknown target." 

 

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Lissa Tyler Renaud

David Wiley painter-poet: graduate of U. Kansas; studied at Mexico City College and with artist Ignacio Belen in Barcelona. Widely traveled, he exhibits throughout California and abroad. Wiley has published two volumes of poetry: Designs for a Utopian Zoo (1992) and The Face of Creation (1996). Since 2005, Wiley has received large mural commissions in Arizona, Mexico and California. Wiley is a longtime contributor to Scene4: paintings, poems, meditations on art, creative non-fiction.
To inquire about his paintings, click here.
For more of his paintings, poetry and writings, check the Archives.

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