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Artist Lecture with Tyler Wilkinson

September 17, 2015

Tyler Wilkinson will visit DePauw University on Thursday Sept 17 at 7pm at the Peeler Art Center auditorium.  Wilkinson will deliver a lecture on the his body of work, most recently exhibited as “Untitled Artifacts from the Base of Racial Mountain.” Inspired by the 1926 similarly titled work of Langston Hughes, Wilkinson uses painting, sculpture, installation, and assemblage to speak directly to an experience of blackness.

Wilkinson explains that “this small selection of ‘artifacts’ is in direct response to black stereotypical archetypes: American Negroes drawn up by colonial hands, retooled and repackaged, perpetuated generation after generation. The work is composed of things I’ve created and/or arranged during my investigation into the legacy of historic racial stereotypes: how blacks have been viewed in American history and how they’ve come to view themselves as a result of demeaning stereotype.”

Wilkinson is a recent graduate from Indiana University, as well as a recipient of a full fellowship to Vermont Studio Center.  His work has been published in last year’s Midwest and MFA annual editions of New American Paintings.  He currently lives and paints in Philadelphia.