Paula Wilson embeds joy, curiosity, and a zest for love and living throughout her art and in her daily life. Her multimedia practice encompasses paintings, sculpture, prints, textiles, collages, and videos, with different media often intermixed in a single work. Challenging the separations between art and everyday living, she uses the same techniques and materials to make art for viewing as for the art she uses: a swing is also a sculpture, a painting is also a rug, a dress is also a print. The work further connects global and local narratives through images and themes as wide-ranging as Southwestern cacti, ancient Greek vases, West African D’mba figures, modern technologies, moths, pigeons, age-old techniques like mosaics and stained glass-often via masterful trompe l’oeil effects-the starry skies, and her own autobiography living in a rural New Mexico desert town. With so much to take in, looking closely is always rewarded by new discoveries.
Join Tang Museum Associate Curator Rebecca McNamara as she presents on the art and life of Paula Wilson, whose exhibition “Paula Wilson: Toward the Sky’s Back Door,” is now on view at the Tang Museum at Skidmore College and will travel in spring 2024 to the California African American Museum in Los Angeles.
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