Artist Paula Wilson shows delirious swath of style at Tang show William Jaeger July 31, 2023 | Updated: July 31, 2023 2:42 p.m. Paula Wilson’s “Reflection Pool near Nogal Peak” at “Paula Wilson: Toward the Sky’s Back Door” exhibit at The Tang Museum. William Jaeger There seems to be no art medium that Paula Wilson has not tried, and her fearless experimentation is part of what makes her growing oeuvre succeed. Her main focus is her paintings, many of…Read More
‘Paula Wilson: Toward the Sky’s Back Door’, new and recent work by acclaimed New Mexico–based artist Paula Wilson, Elders, 2021. Ink, watercolor, colored pencil, acrylic, and oil on paper, muslin, and canvas, 91 x 83 inches, collection of Chris and Catherine Clifford. SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY.– The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College is opening today Paula Wilson: Toward the Sky’s Back Door, a new exhibition featuring the work of renowned multimedia artist Paula…Read More
New at The Tang: Exhibition Features Acclaimed New Mexico–Based Artist BY SARATOGA TODAY | ENTERTAINMENT Paula Wilson, Elders, 2021, ink, watercolor, colored pencil, acrylic, and oil on paper, muslin, and canvas, 91 x 83 inches, collection of Chris and Catherine Clifford. SARATOGA SPRINGS — The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College presents Paula Wilson: Toward the Sky’s Back Door, a new exhibition featuring the work of renowned multimedia artist Paula Wilson. The exhibition opens July…Read More
New exhibit coming to Tang Museum in July “Elders” by Paula Wilson (image provided) By SARATOGIAN STAFF | June 11, 2023 at 8:30 a.m. SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College has a new exhibit opening next month. “Paula Wilson: Toward the Sky’s Back Door” will be on display July 15 through Dec. 30. Wilson, who was born in Chicago and lives and works in Carrizozo, NM, has gained international…Read More
How Do We Embody Natural Spaces? Nicola López and Paula Wilson’s exhibition Becoming Land considers anthropocentric relationships with New Mexico’s desert landscapes. Rachel Harris-Huffman January 30, 2023 Nicola López and Paula Wilson: Becoming Land at the Albuquerque Museum presents the work of two artists who, through mixed media interpretations of human interventions in New Mexico’s desert landscapes, examine anthropocentric relationships with the land. The exhibition is contextually and physically placed front-and-center with a series of three simultaneous exhibitions, featuring historic…Read More
Turning to the Light: Paula Wilson Interviewed by Heidi Howard Works that blend ecology and eroticism. Oct 24, 2022 Paula Wilson, Sunflower Night, 2022, acrylic and oil on muslin and canvas (relief, woodblock, and monotype print), 68 × 89 inches. Courtesy of Denny Dimin Gallery and Paula Wilson. I first encountered Paula Wilson’s art as an MFA student in Gregory Amenoff’s office at Columbia University. I was drawn to an image that featured a female figure in a…Read More
Pep Talks for Artists: Interview w/ Paula Wilson, Oct 20, 2022, Hosted by Amy Talluto Listen to the Podcast As a super fan, I was thrilled to welcome multi-media artist, Paula Wilson to the podcast this week. Paula joined me to talk about her current show, “Imago,” at Denny Dimin Gallery in NYC (up right now through Oct 29, 2022) and also allowed me to pepper her with questions about her work in general. Paula works in expansive…Read More
The Lives of the Artists: Paula Wilson By Brainard Carey, September 28, 2022 Hosted by Praxis on Yale University Radio Listen to the Podcast Paula Wilson received an MFA from Columbia and a BFA from Washington University in St. Louis, MO. Alongside her current exhibition at Denny Dimin Gallery, she is currently exhibiting within a group exhibition Plein Air at MOCA Tucson and has an upcoming solo exhibition Toward the Sky’s Back Door at The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and…Read More
Creatures of the Fire (2020) by Paula Wilson was acquired by the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine, in anticipation of her upcoming two-person exhibition Ashley Bryan | Paula Wilson: Take the World Into Your Arms in 2023.
13 Buzzy Back-to-School Gallery Shows to See During Armory Week, From a Red-Hot Group Show to Rick Lowe’s Gagosian Debut It’s “back to school” for the art world—here’s a guide to the best openings on tap this week. Sarah Cascone, September 6, 2022 Paula Wilson with Mike Lagg, Earth Angel (2022). Courtesy of Denny Dimin Gallery, New York. “Paula Wilson: Imago” at Denny Dimin Gallery Mixed-media artist Paula Wilson will transform Denny Dimin Gallery with her large-scale collages, tromp l’oeil assemblages,…Read More
Plein Air Is a Sobering Reminder of Human Impact on the Environment From borderlands and elevations to ecology and isolation, curator Aurora Tang brings together artists who work deeply in their regional geographies. by Thao Votang Installation view of Plein Air at MOCA Tucson, 2022 (photo by Julius Schlosburg, courtesy MOCA Tucson) TUCSON — By noon on a July day in Tucson, Arizona, it’s already 100 degrees and still climbing. Going to see an exhibition at the…Read More
Plein Air Challenges Assumptions and Aesthetics at MOCA Tucson By Lynn Trimble Lynn Trimble (she/her) is an award-winning writer based in Arizona whose work for regional and national publications ranges from arts reporting to arts criticism. In Plein Air at MOCA Tucson, artists challenge norms in paintings, installations, and video works that confront the white gaze that privileges colonizer culture and systems of oppression. Plein Air, installation view, 2022, Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson. Photo: Julius Schlosburg. Courtesy Museum…Read More
In the heart of Carrizozo, Paula Wilson cultivates her art and life. AUG. 18, 2021 BY MOLLY BOYLE / PHOTOS BY GABRIELLA MARKS IF YOU MEET PAULA WILSON AT HER STUDIO during the weekly art event known as MoMAZoZo, you might not actually see her for a while. Art tends to get in the way, along with history, a growing artistic community, and the gorgeously decrepit streetscape in downtown Carrizozo, where US 54 meets US 380, midway between Socorro and Roswell. Though I can’t immediately find…Read More
On High by Paula Wilson Locust Projects, Miami, FL November 21, 2020 – January 23, 2021 “Looking at this work now, in the current moment, it feels aspirational, linking past and the present, ushering in the potentials of the future.” – Paula Wilson On High at Locust Projects features Paula Wilson’s 2017 video Living Monument, a one-minute, two-channel video. On one screen is footage compiled from online sources of the confederate General Beauregard Equestrian Statue’s removal in New Orleans in…Read More
Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton announces special Hodder Fund grants for 2020-2021 to 10 emerging career artists Grants awarded to Lileana Blain-Cruz, Onyedika Chuke, Mark DeChiazza, Marjani Forte, Jennifer Kidwell, Aurora Nealand, Maya Phillips, Aaron Robertson, Katy Pyle, and Paula Wilson are intended to support artists during the economic challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic The Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University has announced the award of additional support to artists for the 2020-21 academic year…Read More
Curator Carmen Hermo Shares Her Favorite Works from UNTITLED, ART Miami Beach By Artspace NOV. 18, 2019 Associate Curator at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, Carmen Hermo spends her time curating historically significant exhibitions—like “Roots of The Dinner Party: History in the Making” (2017), “Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty” (2016–17), and the Brooklyn presentation of “Radical Women: Latin American Art,” 1960–1985 (2018), just to name a few. Before joining the Brooklyn Museum, Hermo worked with the collections at the Solomon…Read More
LOS ANGELES iris yirei hu and ivan forde VISITOR WELCOME CENTER 3006 W 7th Street Suite 200A September 21–October 26, 2019 View of iris yirei hu and ivan forde, 2019. At the center of iris yirei hu’s installation is a tapestry hanging from a Navajo loom atop clay shards that resemble dry earth mounded over a grave. The woven image is of a weaver, a picture hu pairs with a print of a woman weaving silk (the source image is…Read More
516 shows spotlight transplanted viewpoints By: Kathleen Roberts, June 16, 2019 ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Two New Mexico artists thread inspiration from the state’s high desert terrain through seemingly opposite styles. Paula Wilson’s print world entangles silhouetted figures with fantasy landscapes. Mira Burack’s collages evoke roiling suns and water droplets created from textiles. 516 ARTS is hosting both women in solo shows opening on Saturday, June 22. The art will hang through Aug. 31. Wilson grew up in Chicago and earned…Read More
Paula Wilson’s exhibition, Spread Wild: Pleasures of the Yucca, opened on Saturday at Smack Mellon in Brooklyn, and will be on view through November 4. Please join us at Smack Mellon on Thursday, October 4, 6:30 – 8 p.m. for an artist talk! Smack Mellon is located at 92 Plymouth St, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Listen to Paula Wilson interviewed on Yale University Radio WYBC. Listen Here. Aired March 23, 2018 Image: Paula Wilson in her exhibition FLOORED at Williamson Knight, Portland, OR. Courtesy of Williamson Knight. Photo: Mario Gallucci.
Denny Gallery is pleased to announce our representation of Paula Wilson. Visit Paula Wilson’s artist page. Paula Wilson was born 1975 in Chicago, IL. Lives in Carrizozo, NM. Paula Wilson is a mixed-media artist who studies and sources imagery from different cultures, geographies, and times to develop a unified, visual language of her own. Wilson frequently combines printmaking, painting, sculpture and video into her projects. Wilson works by collaging multiple forms of visual language together: ancient motifs, tropes from Western…Read More
Are Tech Collectors Finally Coming Around? Attendance and Sales Boom at FOG and Untitled San Francisco Oscar Murillo, Fischli/Weiss, and Ron Nagle were among the stand-out sellers at the bustling fair week. Eileen Kinsella, January 18, 2018 The Bay Area may is among the most closely watched art markets in the world right now, and expectations were running high as San Francisco’s fledgling art fair scene kicked into full swing this past weekend. FOG Design + Art, at Fort Mason,…Read More
