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Wiley Wallace graduated with a BFA from ASU in 2004 and recently earned his MFA from UCSB.  Recognized for his distinct style and extreme talent, he has been awarded with numerous Grants and Fellowships including the Levitan Fellowship and the Santa Barbara Art Association Award. Having only recently entered into the commercial art world, Wallace has already gained recognition and respect from established galleries and museums, with invitations from the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and the LA Center for Digital Arts. 

Wallace’s current body of work is the fragmented narrative of memory. Cartoon figures, medical references, family snapshots, and loaded symbols of fortune and mortality populate his compositions. In his paintings, figures emerge from abstract fluid grounds, while other forms seemingly melt away into rainbow-hued puddles. With a kind of sinister ambiguity, Wallace's brightly toned canvases present open-ended visions: like the shuddering images of a Crackerjack toy, Wallace's transformations move between a before and after possibility.

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