WILMER WILSON IV
Dream of the Box Breaking, 2024
Staples on wood
48 x 48 x 1 3/4 in.
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Further images
Expanding upon his early work obscuring and protecting his subjects with a near-impenetrable swaths of staples, Wilson now reduces his compositions to their basic elemental components. Removing the underlying image,...
Expanding upon his early work obscuring and protecting his subjects with a near-impenetrable swaths of staples, Wilson now reduces his compositions to their basic elemental components. Removing the underlying image, the staple now appears as a fully expressive line drawing a portrait that appears and disappears as the viewer passes. Wilson expresses the experience of Black visibility, hypervisibility, and invisibility in his own words.
Exhibitions
"Apparitions," GRAY Chicago, Chicago, 25 April 2025 - 27 June 2025."Wilmer Wilson IV: Projections through the Nictitating Membrane," Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC, 14 March 2024 – 20 April 2024.
Literature
Mendez, Karla. “Wilmer Wilson IV Locates Staples and Wood As Sites of Being and
Communication,” Elephant Magazine, 13 April 2024.
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