Bio

JM Wilson is a visual artist having graduated from California State University Fullerton with a Bachelors of Art in Studio Art in 2022. Wilson’s college focus facilitated a variety of experience spanning multiple mediums including acrylic paint, traditional printmaking, relief carving, and sculpture. Having been raised baptist around the Los Angeles Metropolitan area, Wilson seeks to process belief as a construct and complicated feelings about own sexuality, identity, empathy. Currently working as a printmaking instructor for an LA based disability nonprofit, Wilson enables and facilitates disabled artists to have enriching and successful art practices of their own.

Artist Statement

In my work, I explore and process identity, sexuality, empathy, and most importantly, belief. My work often deals with complicated emotions, depicted as the surreal, the magical, the mythical, and the divine. My work is frequently mixed-medium with texture as the highest priority. Inspired by magical realism, I most frequently create mixed-medium acrylic paintings featuring unfamiliar animals and creatures set in landscapes that are grounded yet hold a surreal quality to them. Having spent much of my academic career focused in ceramics, I often incorporate shallow relief and small sculptural elements into my paintings. Through my work, I seek to depict specific ineffable emotions and uncomfortable thoughts with curiosity and compassion.