January 2014

Furman University in Greenville, SC, Offers Works by David Wilson

Furman University in Greenville, SC, will present Wander, featuring works by University of Tennessee art professor David Wilson, on view in the Thompson Gallery of the Roe Art Building, from Jan. 6 - 31, 2014. A reception and gallery talk will be held on Jan. 30, from 6:30-8:30pm.

Using unconventional materials and approaches, including collaboration and performance, Wilson creates large temporary artworks, videos, and drawings. He describes his method this way, “I most often use fragments, accidents, mistakes, unexpected juxtapositions, small stuff as a basis for constructing my work. This ephemera is amplified and developed by sketching, scanning, doubling, multiplying, layering, turning inside out, distilling, until the result becomes an image, an idea, an entity with a life of its own.”

Wilson has shown his work internationally at Kunsthalle Basel and Kunstlerhaus Boswil in Switzerland, the Experimental Art Foundation and Performance Space in Australia, the Robert McDougal Gallery in New Zealand, and the Center for Icelandic Art, Reykjavik. He has had solo exhibitions in the United States including the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Old Dominion University, Auburn University, the Florida Center for Contemporary Art, and the Dietrich Jenny Gallery. His group exhibitions venues include the Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Spaces Art Gallery, The Mint Museum, Cheekwood Fine Arts Center, the University of California (San Diego), and Wake Forest University.

Wilson’s work has been featured in periodicals such as Schweizer Kunst and Art Papers and reviewed in newspapers including the Los Angeles Times and Newsday. Wilson has been artist-in-residence at the International Artist Exchange, Basel, Switzerland, SIM, Reykjavik, Iceland, and the Academy of Fine Art, Bratislava, Slovak Republic. He has also designed sets for the National Theater of the Deaf Children’s Theater that toured the US.

Wilson received his MFA from the University of California at San Diego where he studied with Allan Kaprow, Italo Scanga, and Manny Farber.

For further information check our SC Institutional Gallery listings or call Furman’s Department of Art at 864/294-2074.

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