Phoenix-born painter Wiley Wallace’s work is playful and ambiguous, his luminous and ostensibly radioactive worlds suggest a metaphysical interest in the possibility of alternate realities: the endlessly shapeshifting and protean nature of fantasy at the intersection of the imagined and “real.” Wallace’s paintings combine realistic rendering with elements of the surreal, and near-magical references that include eerily cast light sources bordering on the supernatural. Playful and macabre, his works combine intense thematic contrasts between light and dark to achieve suspense and evasion. Children are a recurring theme in his compositions, representing a kind of primordial link to something invisible and beyond comprehension, exempt from the rationalizations of the adult. Often using his own children as models, Wallace’s narratives are open-ended, filled with suggestion and partial disclosures rather than forceful assertions or posited certainties. The themes of connection and communication resonate throughout Wallace’s imagery, as the works’ protagonists seem ever in search of fugitive contact. The skeleton is a recurring figure throughout Wallace’s imagery as well, appearing at times as a sinister harbinger of some kind and at others as Halloween costume level kitsch. Wallace’s pieces convey a kind of sci-fi nostalgia harkening back to a Spielberg-era of extraterrestrial-themed filmmaking. At times their implied innocence and naiveté give way to darker and more dystopian readings, surfacing amidst the neon-hued glow.
Current and Previous Works by Wiley Wallace
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“Please Wait”
(2017)
$2,400
Available
Acrylic on wood panel
Shows:
- ‘Stay Connected’ (Main Room)
- POW! WOW! Exploring The New Contemporary Art Movement – 2018
- SCOPE Miami Beach 2017
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“Floating Projections”
(2017)
$2,000
Available
Acrylic on panel
Shows:
- The Persistence of Memory: Salvador Dali and His Influence
- ‘SWANK’
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“Field Recording”
(2017)
$1,600
Available
Acrylic on panel
Shows:
- ‘Stay Connected’ (Main Room)
- SCOPE Miami Beach 2017
- ‘SWANK’
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“Nightfall”
(2020)
$1,800
Available
Acrylic on panel
Shows:
- Group Show Inaugurating Our New Gallery Space
- SCOPE Immersive Miami Beach | Part 2
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“Travels”
(2019)
$1,700
Available
Acrylic on wood panel
Show:
- CONVERGENCE – Taking place at The University of Texas
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“Sinking Transition”
(2018)
$1,500
Available
Acrylic on panel
Show:
- ‘Stay Connected’ (Main Room)
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“Holding Connection”
(2018)
$3,600
Available
Acrylic on panel
Shows:
- CONVERGENCE – Taking place at The University of Texas
- ‘Stay Connected’ (Main Room)
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“Virtual Opening”
(2020)
$900
Available
Acrylic on panel
Show:
- The Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing
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“Narrow Escape”
(2017)
$3,000
Sold
Acrylic on wood panel
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“Try To Hold On”
(2017)
$1,500
Sold
Acrylic on wood panel
Shows:
- ‘Stay Connected’ (Main Room)
- SCOPE Miami Beach 2017
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“Embrace”
(2020)
$900
Sold
Acrylic on panel
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“Digital Merge”
(2016)
$600
Sold
Acrylic on wood panel
Show:
- LAX / ORD – curated show at Vertical Gallery (Chicago, IL)
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“Searching”
(2019)
$900
Sold
Acrylic on wood panel
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“Communication Gifts”
(2016)
$900
Sold
Acrylic on wood panel
Show:
- The New Vanguard – Taking place at The Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH)
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“Grow Together”
(2017)
$1,050
Sold
Acrylic on panel
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“Can’t Reach”
(2016)
$650
Sold
Acrylic on wood panel
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“Warning Burial”
(2017)
$1,050
Sold
Acrylic on panel
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“Endless Loop”
(2017)
$575
Sold
Acrylic on panel
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“Pulled Away”
(2017)
$575
Sold
Acrylic on panel
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“Impossible Call”
(2017)
$1,500
Sold
Acrylic on wood panel
Show:
- Juxtapozed (Fort Wayne Museum of Art – Fort Wayne, IN)
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“Distractions”
(2019)
$900
Sold
Acrylic on wood panel
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“Diversions”
(2019)
$900
Sold
Acrylic on wood panel
Show:
- LAX / ORD II – Curated by Thinkspace
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“Choices”
(2020)
$600
Sold
Acrylic on panel
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“Daybreak”
(2020)
$1,800
Sold
Acrylic on panel
Show:
- Group Show Inaugurating Our New Gallery Space
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“Fire and Rain”
(2020)
$900
Sold
Acrylic on wood panel
Show:
- Mother Earth: We Are All One
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“Reaching In”
(2016)
$400
Sold
Acrylic on wood panel
Show:
- Small Works Holiday Group Show (Project Room)
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“Reaching Out”
(2016)
$400
Sold
Acrylic on wood panel
Show:
- Small Works Holiday Group Show (Project Room)
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“Finding Luminance”
(2019)
$1,350
Sold
Acrylic on custom wood panel
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“Falling Out”
(2018)
$900
Sold
Acrylic on wood panel
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“Helping Out”
(2019)
$900
Sold
Acrylic on wood panel
Shows:
- LAX / ORD II – Curated by Thinkspace
- LAX / SFO Pt. III
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“Holding On”
(2019)
$900
Sold
Acrylic on wood panel
Show:
- POW! WOW! Hawaii: The 7th Annual Exploring The New Contemporary Movement exhibition
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“Flying Away”
(2017)
$800
Sold
Acrylic on wood panel
Show:
- Pow Wow Hawai’I 2017 – (Taking place at Honolulu Museum of Art School)
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“Further Conversation”
(2018)
$1,500
Sold
Acrylic on panel
Show:
- ‘Stay Connected’ (Main Room)
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“Pulling Pieces”
(2018)
$1,500
Sold
Acrylic on panel
Show:
- ‘Stay Connected’ (Main Room)
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“Disassemble”
(2019)
$900
Sold
Acrylic on wood panel
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“Stay Connected”
(2016)
$975
Sold
Acrylic on wood panel
Show:
- Nexus – taking place at The Brand Library & Art Center
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“Guiding Connection”
(2018)
$600
Sold
Acrylic on panel
Show:
- ‘Stay Connected’ (Main Room)
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“Impossible Source”
(2017)
$2,000
Sold
Acrylic on wood panel
Shows:
- ‘SWANK’
- Flourish (Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum – Mesa, AZ)
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“No Deeper”
(2018)
$800
Sold
Acrylic on panel
Show:
- ‘Stay Connected’ (Main Room)
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“What Did You Find?”
(2018)
$3,000
Sold
Acrylic on panel
Shows:
- CONVERGENCE – Taking place at The University of Texas
- ‘Stay Connected’ (Main Room)
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“Grasping Connection”
(2018)
$1,700
Sold
Acrylic on panel
Show:
- ‘Stay Connected’ (Main Room)
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“Gleaming Connection”
(2018)
$1,700
Sold
Acrylic on panel
Show:
- ‘Stay Connected’ (Main Room)
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“Growing Connection”
(2018)
$1,800
Sold
Acrylic on panel
Show:
- ‘Stay Connected’ (Main Room)