Artland’s Daily Art Pick
Every day collectors at Artland share variety of artworks from around the world, both from their personal collections as well as pieces they’ve seen in a recent gallery opening or got inspired by on the web.
In this feature, we will be presenting you with the highlight of the day, the most interesting, inspiring or moving piece of art posted in the app in the last days together with name of the collector who shared it.
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Artist
Turning flat images into sculptural objects, Letha Wilson’s photographs in relief and site-specific installations draw attention to the relationship between architecture and nature. Shots of American landscapes—reddish canyons, the ocean, lush vegetation—are cut and folded like an accordion into wall-hung pieces whose cavities and slashes possess the physicality of Gordon Matta-Clark’s or Lucio Fontana’s interventions. Wilson received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Syracuse University, and went on to receive her Master of Fine Arts from Hunter College. She has had pieces exhibited at The Studio Museum in Harlem, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, and the International Center of Photography, as well as many other galleries and showrooms. She was a recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Photography, and has been further recognized by Artsy through her inclusion in their list of ‘These 20 Female Artists Are Pushing Sculpture Forward’. With layers of concrete or bases of cement, Wilson’s works are a manmade contrast to the natural subjects of her prints, while their final textures also refer back to natural terrains (via artsy).
Letha Wilson | Sandstone Canyon Utah (Waterlines), 2014
Media | Unique C-print, concrete, emulsion transfer, powder coated aluminium frame