William Wiley (b. 1937) has stood the test of time in the face of changing styles, successive movements, critical theories and passing fashion.

His self-deprecating humor and sense of the absurd make his art accessible to even those who do not comprehend his more ambiguous ideas, allusions, narratives, private symbols and layers of meaning. Puns are fun, and they make more palatable his deadly serious commentary on war, pollution, global warming, racial tension and other threats to contemporary civilization. What's It All Mean: William T. Wiley in Retrospect, the first full-scale look at Wiley's career since 1979, will feature approximately 80 works from the late 1960s to the present, borrowed from public and private collections as well as from the artist. It will provide a serious overview of Wiley's career while exploring important themes and ideas expressed in his work. (Source: http://americanart.si.edu)