Even though Fred Wilson is an artist, he doesn't really want to make art with his own hands anymore. Wilson states, "I get everything that satisfies my soul from bringing together objects that are in the world, manipulating them, working with spatial arrangements, and having things presented in the way I want to see them." To make his pieces then, Wilson uses objects of different varieties and sometimes uses glass to make his own works.
Wilson's installations are really inspired by the things around him. He is intrinsically curious about objects and their purpose and likes to juxtapose these objects to give them new meaning. Race issues are also a prominent theme in Wilson's work, such as when he made glass, black tears to represent the sadness he felt as a child when he was isolated because of his race.
Wilson's pieces are three-dimensional in form and include a lot of repetition. This repetition is seen in the objects he uses, such as a piece made up of only rocks. Or if he accumulates a lot of the same kind of objects, he'll make a piece out of that too. Wilson's works are also heavily categorized with his objects grouped in a way that communicates the message he's trying to convey.
Wilson makes art he wants to make, no matter what people say. In the words of Wilson himself, "when you start doing what you really, really believe in, that's when you do your best works."
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"Fred Wilson." Art21. PBS, n.d. Web. 2 Apr. 2014.
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