jessica KNAP
My Case study focused on the African American modern installation artist Fred Wilson. Wilson creates and explores with humorous and ironic metaphors of excavation of forgotten ideas in museum archives. Taking artifacts, archeological findings, and other items given to him he uses the history behind these items to create a new form of special art. A common theme consists of his expressing feelings of being left out due to his skin color and his acknowledgement of black artists exhibitions not being prevalent in galleries and museums. Wilson describes his inspiration and art, “I get everything that satisfies my soul from bringing objects that are in the world and manipulating them, working with special arrangements, and then having things produced the way I want to see them.”
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