"With a body of work that spans painting, sculpture, writing, and architecture—and inventing ways to bring them
together—Wilson emerges as a 21st century polymath. His ‘sculptural’ or ‘layered’ paintings bridge realism with low-relief substrates in a way wholly new.” F. Scott Cruz

“He is like Poussin!—in the best original sense, academic.”  Gore Vidal

Blue Hour, early stage: a painted view over San Francisco rooftops to the bay, Alcatraz and the Marin hills at dusk, its lower edge torn open over a gridded plaster base. Blue Hour, second stage: the bay view at dusk with more of the cityscape painted, the lower edge still breaking away to the gridded plaster. Blue Hour, third stage: white plaster relief blocks begin to fill in below the painted San Francisco skyline. Blue Hour, fourth stage: the painted city and bay rest on a broad field of unpainted white plaster blocks. Blue Hour, finished: San Francisco rooftops, the bay and Alcatraz at dusk, breaking at the bottom into deep blue sculpted blocks.


BLUE HOUR
Sculptural painting, mixed media, oil on plaster | 48” X 68” X 4”

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