David Wilson

Wilson’s exploration and development of painting was established through a blend of self-teaching and schooling at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver, BC. Resultant works utilized high realism to explore the sociological and aesthetic subjects within the urban landscape. They included various locations and established an extensive exhibition history. Since the summer of 2001, Wilson discontinued creating and exhibiting his previous work, paintings of highly realistic urban landscapes. Instead, he began to create work that moved beyond documenting and analyzing the urban scene. Spurred on by the creative genius of artists such as Picasso and David Bierk, he sought to establish a forum that would include more of his psyche into his paintings. These new images are based upon alternative realities established through film, magazines and other media-generated cultural ideas – a documentation and analysis of escapist realities. Within this practice, Wilson seeks to reconfigure these manufactured ideals and create a dichotomy between an image’s intent and its conclusion, utilizing text and image on canvas.

David Wilson Images:
La Jacobine, St. Germain des Pres, Paris
Le Ciel de Paris
Le Village, Aix-en-Provence
Rio Di San Toma Venezia
Rue Lepic, Montmarte, Paris
Times Square North
Times Square South