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Article: William Wiley: The Writing's on the Walls
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- The Washington Post
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- October 9, 2009
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Writing about the art of William T. Wiley isn't easy. That's all
right. There's enough verbiage -- some might even say logorrhea -
- on view in the Smithsonian American Art Museum's "What's It All
Mean: William T. Wiley in Retrospect" to make up for a roomful of
tongue-tied critics.
The show consists of painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking
and film -- even a working pinball machine -- but you'll need
one thing above all else here: reading glasses. When I say verbiage,
I mean that quite literally. The artist's loopy penmanship is
scrawled across the surface of almost every picture and several
sculptures. More of the artist's handwriting samples are on view at
the Marsha Mateyka ...