About

Keith Wiley has worked in the fields of architecture, design, and fine art for the past thirty years. His practice of making integrates sculptural, printmaking, and photographic processes to explore concepts of space, material, and light.

The dialog between materials, memory, and form is a key element of Wiley’s work. Drawing on his background making models at architecture firms in Los Angeles and Boston, his pieces function at multiple scales, exhibiting a finely crafted materiality that evokes the potential for instrumentality. Constructed from hardwoods, steel, and bronze, as well as found objects, his sculpture exerts a tectonic sensibility that speaks of their own creation, asserting their agency as material objects. These pieces often fold up and close, as if to be put away when the work is done, creating a moment of closure and yet leaving open the potential for further interpretation.

In his photographic practice, Wiley utilizes a wide range of film-based and alternative processes, including purpose-made pinhole cameras, to capture images that are as much about the materials and processes as they are about the subjects themselves. Wiley’s process-obsessed approach embraces the imperfection and manipulation of fragile techniques and complex processes in a wide variety of materials and media, including historic photographic methods, to create spatial reinterpretations of the sculptural work that highlight the complexities of memory, place, and mood.

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