Frank Wimberley, Artist of Controlled Accidents, Dies at 99

Frank Wimberley, Artist of Controlled Accidents, Dies at 99

Frank Wimberley in an undated photo (all photos courtesy Berry Campbell Gallery) Last winter, from his home in Corona, Queens, then-98-year-old artist Frank Wimberley puzzled together a collage. The resulting work is an amalgamation of shorn paper laid upon museum board. Some of those sheets are layered with thick, textured acrylic brush strokes in moody shades; a bright streak of orange passes through the composition, while a circular portal gr…