Elaine S. Wilson

Elaine S. Wilson’s direct, light-filled landscape paintings on linen or wood panels get at the specific nature of a place through repeated encounters with a site. She values slow looking to determine what is happening in a place and to reveal its unexpected lyricism. This exploration begins with drawing, which helps Wilson see a place or structure and understand its proportions and interrelationships.

Wilson holds her MFA in painting from the Yale School of Art and her BFA from the Washington University in St. Louis School of Art. Her work is in the collections of the Grand Rapids Art Museum, Library of Congress, The University of Michigan Office of the President, Herman Miller, and Cigna Corp., among other public, corporate, and private collections. She has exhibited widely around the country. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts Regional Artists Fellowship and a residency at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation in Bethany, CT.

Wilson has over thirty years of teaching experience at the college level and at community art centers, including Rhode Island School of Design, University of Michigan School of Art and Design, Washtenaw Community College, and Wesleyan University. She has taught numerous art workshops to introduce artists and non-artists to the exploration of the behavior of color.