Artist # 16 Fred Wilson

I read, here, that before Fred Wilson began his own work, he worked in museums in New York. He worked at the Metropolitan and the Museum of Natural History. He was a freelance educator in these museums. He didn't like the way the museums were portraying the items displayed and I think thought they could be misinterpreted because of that. So he would redo some of the displays in new ways that would allow the viewers to see what is shown without anything blocking the view or getting in the way, (figuratively speaking).

Some of Fred Wilson's work is very different from what i've seen with other artists. I knew that he was some kind of "museum artist" because his name is from the handout from class. If I looked him up on my own without knowing that, by just looking at his pictures I might be able to tell that is his main focus. There were a few that didn't seem to be like a museum display like this chandelier:

It just looks like an antique item, and i'm not really sure what it is about. Maybe it was a chandelier from some really important person's house and so that's why it would be displayed in a museum.




These pieces are made of wax. It's hard to find information on the individual works instead of Fred Wilson as a person. The pictures don't really have any information with them. I know that his work is trying to break down the barriers of the lighting, colors, shapes, displays of museums to create a different meaning. When all those elements are changed it changes the meaning of the works.

Here are a couple more pictures of his work: