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Bill Wilson, Pliers and Nails, 1987
painted wood
35 x 10 in.

Bill Wilson was born in 1931. He holds a B.A. from William and Mary College in Williamsburg, Virginia. He attended the Art Students' League in New York and studied with George Grosz and Reginald Marsh. He then spent three years traveling in the South Pacific. In 1959 he received an M.F.A. in painting from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. He has exhibited throughout the United States and is included in the collections of the Albany Museum, the Schenectady Museum, and the Munson-Williams Proctor Institute of Art. Wilson's prints and mixed-media works present striking, illusionistic twists on Action Painting and challenge conventional perceptions of mundane objects.