ADAM DALEY WILSON
How It All Relates Is Like The Honey Bee, 2024
oil stick on canvas 80 x 60 in 203.2 x 152.4 cm |
Adam Daley Wilson (b. 1971) is a self-taught conceptual artist who lives and works in Maine. His work manifests in oil painting, installations, video, and performance. He is also an emerging art theorist. Daley Wilson’s practice blends cognitive and intuitive processes where he uses language in both legible texts and abstract personal writing systems to experiment with visual meaning in relation to theories and viewer interpretation. His works are informed by his traditional education (Stanford Law, University of Pennsylvania) and his bipolar 1: Neurologically, when in hypomanias, his naturally high levels of dopamine and serotonin cause increased electrical connectivity in the frontal and temporal lobes, causing increased abilities to see relations, connections, and associations between things normally seen as far apart.
Daley Wilson’s works are in collections in New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Miami, and Chicago. Both solo shows so far were Artforum “Must See” shows in Chicago (2021, 2023). His work in art theory and art philosophy includes a top-10 paper in the Fine Arts, Aesthetics, and Philosophy Journals of SSRN (2024), and he has served on the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Doctoral Studies in Visual Art, an international PhD program for artists. As both an appellate lawyer and as an artist, he writes briefs in American courts on Art Law, Constitutional Law, the First Amendment, and the Visual Artists’ Rights Act. On the basis of his shows, the Berlin-based advisory Artfacts lists him in the top 5% of artists associated with post-conceptualism, conceptual painting, text-based art, and activist art. As a self-taught artist indebted to mentors since his unexpected start in 2014, after a meds change by his psychiatrist, he informally mentors emerging artists in the US and several countries. |
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Interviewed by Aspect/Ratio Gallery(2021 Podcast)
Artist CV
Art Talks - Hear Adam talk about his work
Interviewed by Aspect/Ratio Gallery(2021 Podcast)
