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My name is David G. Wilson. I was born in 1953 in the English speaking Caribbean Island, The Commmonwealth of Dominica. I have been painting for thirty seven (37) years. However, my artistic inclination has been lifelong. I emigrated to the United States in 1976 where I obtained a bachelor's degree in Economics with a minor in Foreign languages(French & Spanish). I am a self-taught artist whose interest in painting intensified on my arrival in the United States. By visiting the numerous museums at my disposal in the USA, I have been able to learn more about Art and Art History than if I had attended art school. I live in New York City with my wife of twenty-nine (29) years, Yvonne. |
| About the Artist | |
Anthropomorphic Perception |
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Leda in Ecstasy
1995 |
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| Since I can identify more with tropical birds, Leda's swan has been transformed into a heron, which is a bird whose neck has similar characteristics as that of the swan. The heron is at the riverside eating a fish that it has just caught. Leda is in total rapture as her curled fingers and electrified hair attest. Her firefly nipples and navel add heat and light to the eroticism of the scene. The intensity of her ecstasy discloses her identity as one of Zeus' concubines.
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La Révélation: L.E.P.I.H.
2006 |
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| In his writings, Leonardo da Vinci suggested that the artist could enhance his creative faculties by staring at a stain on the wall and perceiving therein whatever he wished to see. Having read that in 1980, I embarked on a quest to find whether there were images hidden in the Mona Lisa.
La Révélation is the result of a twenty-six year quest. It reveals a crepuscular mountainous landscape through which meanders a golden hued river. An ancient bridge which once spanned the river has toppled into the river and casts elongated shadows on the water. In the middle ground, one sees a gondola and another boat floating on the water. You,the viewer, are on a balcony which is furnished with a baby's crib and a director's chair that is draped in a length of fine blue silk. There is a basket with grapes, a loaf of bread and a pear on the seat of the chair. Someone has nonchalantly placed a hand of bananas on the arm of the chair whose finial curls to create fingers on a hand. There are cypress trees in the middle ground, which mimic the hair of the Mona Lisa. In the mountainous landscape, one discovers the deceased remains of two popes, St Peter himself and Gregory, the Great. Across the neck of Gregory crawls a serpent, while Peter's body creates a "T" shaped cross with the image of the Mona Lisa. The serpent is being devoured by a fish,(Ichthus). Hidden in the neck and chest is the outline of a kitten which is being intimidated by the dog's head that emerges from the headboard of the baby's crib.
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Flora
2003 |
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| The strategic and plausible juxtaposition of commonplace objects using aerial perspective on a two dimensional surface creates an alternate reality, an illusion built on an illusion that creates another dimension. (the fourth dimension?) Flora reveal the yet unaccepted and depreciated criterion of beauty of the African woman.
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Afrocentricity of Pushkin
2001 |
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| Pushkin's African ancestor can be seen on the African shore looking across the ocean for her kidnapped son, Hannibal, who was taken into slavery in Russia. She peers across the ocean towards the distant land and a bird brings her the news of her famed descendant. Then Pushkin's spirit appears to reassure her of his wellbeing. An inversion of time attests to the fourth dimension.
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Anthropomorphoscape on the Hudson
2003 |
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| Sigmund Freud claims to have seen a vulture in the robes of Mary in Leonardo's painting, "St Ann, Mary and the Infant Jesus". So, based on Leonardo's suggestion that the artist can perceive anything that he wishes to see in an image, I decided to search for it. Well, I discovered much more than the vulture. I saw the aftermath of the WTC disaster. There is a ruin by the river, which is the sacrificial lamb. Smoke rises from a conflagration on the riverbank and boats are sailing along the Hudson river. So, one may compare this painting to Leonardo's masterpiece and see my source of inspiration, but the vulture really is present, lying on its back across Mary's lap. Its beak is stabbing her in the back, while it luxuriates in comfort.
Study the image and see the young boy chasing after a black bird in the face of baby Jesus who is straddling the sacrificial lamb that he will later become.
© David G. Wilson |
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Tulips
1998 |
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| Plausible and strategic juxtaposition of "mnemonic images" is the key to creating the alternate realities in an image. There is a three dimensional illusion depicted on a two dimensinal surface. The three dimensional illusion is created by the traditional use of aerial persepective to mimic real space. However, when one takes into consideration the reality of the two dimensional surface, a second illusion emerges as a result of strategic juxtaposition of anthropomorphic images. Can that second illusion be seen as another dimension in space? Could it be the depiction of a parallel universe showing two distinct images existing in the same space. I have deliberately tried to interpose only realistic images plausibly juxtaposed to create this parallel imagery within the same space.
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Salomé's dance
2003 |
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| The reward for Salomé's ignominous dance was the beheading of St. John, The Baptist. She had pulled off her infamous ruse and had had his head placed on a platter. A careful scrutiny will reveal the head of the saint in a frying pan as Salomé's arms, legs, dress and head morph into the profile of St John, The Baptist.
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Trenchtown Tremor
1992 |
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| The viewer is backstage. He is looking through the curtains at a performance of the Reggae Super Trio, Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer and Bob Marley. Peter is on the right and Bunny on the left. Bob can be seen as a silhouette in the background, but the foreground to the world (the audience). Bunny is beating a huge drum with the map of Jamaica on the surface. Their dreadlocks are being thrown into the air as they dance to the rhythm or the vibrations of the tremor which has now turned into an earthquake that "rocks" the world. By turning one's head to the right, one may see the rising LION of JUDAH in the shadow that Bunny casts. © David G. Wilson |
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| Education and biography | |
| My art education has been an informal one. Since arriving in the U.S.A, in 1976, I have become quite enamored of the museums there, because I have learned how to paint in those museums. I observe closely the techniques of the numerous masters whose work I enjoy and return home bursting with inspiration. Since 2000, my wife and I have made several trips to Europe, viz London and Paris to visit museums. I hope to explore more European cities. We are presently searching for a building to house our growing collection of over four hundred(400) paintings and about twenty (20)pieces of sculpture and innumerable drawings. If we are successful in finding such a space, we intend to found a small museum when I retire from teaching. I have had numerous exhibitions in the U.S. the largest being a solo show of ninety-eight (98) paintings that adorned the ground floor of 26 Federal Plaza (The Jacob Javits Federal building in Manhattan) in October, 1994. | |
| Website: www.davidgwilson.com | |
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