Description
Letha Wilson was born in Hawaii, raised in Colorado, and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. Her excursions in the Rocky Mountains have placed the natural world and its image at the root of her artistic interests. Her mixed-media work begins as an exploration into our understanding of landscape, and her piece Glacier Sky (Back to Back) is no exception. Wilson adhered the backs of two prints together and then hand-altered the piece by cutting and folding an opening in the center, transforming it into a three-dimensional sculpture that can be displayed with either image facing outwards. Collectors may purchase two prints to display as a diptych. Wilson earned her BFA from Syracuse University, an MFA from Hunter College, and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2009. Wilson has exhibited her artwork at many venues including Art in General, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Bronx Museum of the Arts, International Center for Photography, Essl Museum of Contemporary Art, Hauser and Wirth, Eleven Rivington, Higher Pictures, and GRIMM. In 2013, Wilson received both a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Photography and a Deutsche Bank Fellowship. Wilson participated in Light Work’s Artist-in-Residence program in 2015.
