Like his early influences Jasper Johns, Marcel Duchamp, and Westermann, Wiley makes artworks that are dense with meaning and that are built by developing, recombining, and cataloguing, in all media available to him, the elements of a visual vocabulary suffused with memory and emotion.
Humanly Possible: Dan Nadel on the art of William T. Wiley
Dan Nadel, Artforum, April 1, 2019