Moonlight Painting

Ian Wilson was born in 1988 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He grew up in Greenville, North Carolina. He currently lives and works in Portland, Oregon. He attended Appalachian State University where he earned a BFA in Painting and Printmaking. He later attended the University of South Florida and earned an MFA in Studio Art. His interview project Das Haus has featured painters such as Robert Nava, Aubrey Levinthal, and Peter Shear. His interview project has been featured in galleries nationally. Ian has also participated in exhibitions across the US. Ian's work uses a grid as a conceptual window and contemplative space that can be used as a metaphorical sandbox that can be manipulated to generate contemplative forms or abstract shapes that take poetic or romantic tones. Ian's work explores themes of time, color, observation, waiting, and confinement. He begins each of his small to mid-size and occasionally large works with a set of parameters and rules and then improvises them going forward to reach planned or unexpected conclusions.