Jessica Wilson - I know you were trouble when you walked in
ArtVerona 2022 (Oct 14-16) - Monographic Fair Booth - Galleria d'Arte Niccoli - Jessica Wilson - I know you were trouble when you walked in (with Marco Niccoli and Jessica Wilson)
Immediate and disruptive, Jessica Wilson's colourful marks hide, behind the apparent simplicity of the stroke, a dynamic universe of meaning coming from multiple stimuli: recollections of the works of great artists of the 20th century and the Renaissance, which she assimilates and cites, personal biographical past and her interest in design and architecture until arriving at the multiform world of personal interpretation. Filtered through memory and her hand – often in an ironic way – Jessica Wilson's work touches the strings of the viewer's imagination to transport them into the intimacy of the self: sensuality and sexuality, everyday and dreamlike, abstract and concrete alternate in a game dictated by the unconscious of the individual viewer.
© Galleria d'Arte Niccoli (photo by Viviana Berti)
Each single brush stroke links her poetics to the great exponents of American Minimalism, the hard-edge painting of Ellsworth Kelly, the fabric paintings of Frank "Blinky" Palermo, and the vivid geometries of Mary Heilmann, an intellectual figure of great relevance to the artist's poetics. In 2017, Wilson herself produced the fantasy exhibition Mary, Blinky, Jessica, Yay! at the Gerald Moore Gallery, in which she referenced the works of Mary Heilmann and Blinky Palermo to create a series of paintings loosely inspired by the two artists as a bold commentary on art history to which the artist looks back with nostalgia.
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