Marion Wilson (artist)

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Marion Wilson
Occupation(s)American artist and professor

Marion Wilson is an American artist whose mixed media installations have gained critical attention.

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Education

In 1983, Marion Wilson received her B.A. in Studio Art from Wesleyan University. [1] She received her M.A. in Urban Pedagogy from Columbia University in 1990, and her M.F.A. from the University of Cincinnati in 1993. [1] In 2018 she was an Artist-in-Residence at the McColl Center for Art + Innovation.

Work

Wilson works in sculpture, photography and painting.

At Syracuse University, Wilson created an interdisciplinary curriculum for artists and architects – revitalizing urban spaces to address critical social issues. She received the Chancellors award for Global Citizenship for the "new Directions in Social Sculpture" curriculum that two design build projects: MLAB and 601 Tully. 601 Tully was the renovation of a neighborhood drug house into a neighborhood art center. MLAB was transforming a 1984 RV into a mobile field station linking art and botany and taking it from Maine to Miami. [2]

Wilson has been acknowledged for her "'Last Suppers' series of mixed-media installations that focus on the final meals of famous killers. The series combines video, photography and sculpture to comment on what Wilson perceives is the irony inherent in offering a condemned man his last supper." [3] Commissioned for the "Counter Culture" exhibition at the New Museum, Wilson set up an art-vending cart outside the Bowery Mission, an organization for the homeless. She made small sculptures from common objects cast in resin, hair sculpture, knitted scarves. She bartered and traded skills and objects with people on the LES and ran the business with three men served at the Bowery Mission. [4]

Exhibitions

Selected solo exhibitions

Public art projects: interactive collaborations

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References

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  2. "About the Artist". Marion Wilson.
  3. Rushworth, Katherine (June 15, 2002). "At the End of the Row". Syracuse Post-Standard.
  4. 1 2 Lebowitz, Cathy (November 2004). "Counter Culture on the Bowery and Vicinity". Art in America.
  5. 1 2 "At Pulse Miami Beach, Plants, Plants Everywhere". Hyperallergic. 2 December 2015. Retrieved 2016-04-04.
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  8. "Hallwalls" (PDF). May 1999. Retrieved April 5, 2016 via web.
  9. "Art, food, music converge for 'Midsummer Night's Fling' at Forman Park". syracuse.com. 21 August 2014. Retrieved 2016-04-05.
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