Wiley is one of the most well-known artists connected with the California Funk Art movement. While the art world of the 1960s was embracing formalist theory and Minimalism, Wiley and his colleagues, including Robert Arneson, ignored this and created work that pokes fun at the glamour of the art world and the concept of the artist with a capital "A." Beginning in the 1980s, Wiley began to create paintings, drawings, and sculptures with allusions to specific concerns he had about politics. Crew Dark is an example of this. The work is playful and busy, traits that are typical of Wiley's style.

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