Created 1995 Acquired 1995

alum foil relief

(a general comment on this artist who has many works represented)
(J) Chris Wilder is another artist whose every work we wish we could have, and it's been that way since we saw his first one-person exhibition more than a decade ago. Wilder's work has the fresh perspective of coming from outside the conventional expectations of mainstream culture (you could even say highbrow culture as well). Yet at the same time this work continually reaches out to make contact with that culture, to bring it closer in to his (and our) direct experience, to make it understandable and to make it work, to make it valuable in human terms. Perhaps this connects to the UFO theme, which you will find in some of these pieces. There is another theme among these works, in which Wilder adopts the established strategies of contemporary art , bringing them to life and bringing them into life with his own unique vision.

Chris Wilder