Diversions

Dimensions: 12 x 12 Inches / 30 x 30 cm Medium: Original painting on wooden panel. Provenance: Hand signed by artist on reverse. Includes gallery certificate of authenticity. Original receipt included on request. Edition: Original artwork (#1/1) Year: 2019 Condition: Excellent ARTIST BIO 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 a