Wally Bill Hedrick (1928 – December 17, 2003) was a seminal American performer in the 1950s California counterculture, gallerist, and educator who came to inflection in the further on 1960s. Hedrick’s contributions to art tally up pioneering artworks in psychedelic fresh art, mechanical kinetic sculpture, junk/assemblage sculpture, Pop Art, and (California) Funk Art. Later in his life, he was a recognized forerunner in Happenings, Conceptual Art, Bad Painting, Neo-Expressionism, and image appropriation. Hedrick was plus a key figure in the first important public manifestation of the Beat Generation past he helped to organize the Six Gallery Reading, and created the first artistic denunciation of American foreign policy in Vietnam. Wally Hedrick was known as an “idea artist” long before the label “conceptual art” entered the art world, and experimented with unbiased use of language in art, at time resorting to puns.
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