Domino Effect: The Extroverts Intuitive Collection | Closing Exhibition & Artist Talk by Jack Wilson
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✨Closing Reception: Free & Open to the Public✨
Join us July 12th 6:00 - 9pm
Artist Talk Q&A | 6:30 - 7:30pm
Jack Wilson, a celebrated figure in the Wichita art scene and a nationally recognized talent, returns with Domino Effect—a bold, intuitive collection that radiates energy, resilience, and artistic evolution.
Despite the physical challenges of ALS, Jack continues to create with unwavering determination, adapting his practice and reimagining his techniques to share a message of strength, vitality, and creative spirit. This new body of work is a testament to his enduring vision—and an invitation to witness what it means to truly live through art.
Join us in celebrating Jack’s extraordinary journey and groundbreaking collection. Can't make it to the closing reception? Please drop by any time Tuesday-Friday 10-5pm & Saturday 10-2pm.
Join us for an intimate Artist Talk and Q&A as Jack Wilson shares the vision, process, and inspiration behind Domino Effect: The Extrovert’s Intuitive Collection. Hear firsthand how he has continued to create groundbreaking work while living with ALS, adapting his techniques to express the unstoppable force of creativity.
✨ ARTIST STATEMENT ✨
Perhaps a better title for this show of digital play would be, Domino Effect: The Inside Out Collection. But I chose the former title because by selecting pieces to show, that is the action of an extrovert—and heck, I love people. While working, I have little concern for what is going on outside of me. While working, I take precautions to eliminate outside influences such as music, TV, people, etc. Making is a form of alchemy. Not turning baser metals into gold or basic physical materials into art, but it is my process… my play for self-discovery, with the goal to transform baser man (self) into elevated spirit.
My process is like war. A battle of love and hate… likes and dislikes, a search for the unseen, a desire to abandon the world… self… to have absolute trust in God. Ideas are a dime a dozen. When I have a perceived notion—other than the materials I want to play with—it quickly evaporates with each mark made. From the first dot, slash, or splash made on the blank picture plane, I move into a meditative zone; a dialogue begins. It is an endless conversation. There is always something more to try in response to the present moment’s harmonies and discords of life’s sensual, fluxing symphony.
My last semester as an undergraduate in painting and drawing, I was painting on a large canvas and had the thought: why not take all the paintings I’ve done and make them into a drop cloth to catch drips of paint as I work on this one surface for the rest of my life? After graduation, I did that—but only worked the painting for a few weeks before tossing it out. My wife, son, and daughter have been my most appreciative audience. Mostly what I hear from them in general was, “You’re the bestest artist.” More specifically, day to day in my studio, they’d ask me, “Why did you ruin it?” For me, a work is never finished. It’s more like abandoned—but then there are some surfaces so plugged up, it’s more like, by death do us part.
After being diagnosed with ALS, I started learning Photoshop by doing photo restorations, which I still do today. Limited movement has turned me nowadays to only work digitally. Digital work/play, unlike traditional artist materials, has an undo button. It’s like you can stand some of the dominoes back up and move on a different highway to investigate where it leads. I should have taken my son’s advice from years ago—he had suggested taking photographs of my work before making big changes. I did start doing that the last few years while I could still paint and draw. That’s given me plenty of materials to pull from for moving in new directions and maintaining a wee bit of an organic feel. Most of the pieces in the show are created from scanning previous paintings and drawings—and occasionally photographs—then lifting and forming elements from them in Photoshop and collaging them into fresh compositions. I still enter that zone mentioned earlier, but as recognizable images emerge suggesting a narrative, I push the work to some form of aesthetic resolution. Thus, me the hypocrite, making finishing touches to pieces to hopefully make them visually acceptable to my audience. Works are titled after they are abandoned. It doesn’t matter what I see and/or get from the work. It’s my hope you take time to gaze and interact with pieces and, in at least a subtle way, are moved in a positive direction.
Jack Wilson
Join us July 12th 6:00 - 9pm
Artist Talk Q&A | 6:30 - 7:30pm
Jack Wilson, a celebrated figure in the Wichita art scene and a nationally recognized talent, returns with Domino Effect—a bold, intuitive collection that radiates energy, resilience, and artistic evolution.
Despite the physical challenges of ALS, Jack continues to create with unwavering determination, adapting his practice and reimagining his techniques to share a message of strength, vitality, and creative spirit. This new body of work is a testament to his enduring vision—and an invitation to witness what it means to truly live through art.
Join us in celebrating Jack’s extraordinary journey and groundbreaking collection. Can't make it to the closing reception? Please drop by any time Tuesday-Friday 10-5pm & Saturday 10-2pm.
Join us for an intimate Artist Talk and Q&A as Jack Wilson shares the vision, process, and inspiration behind Domino Effect: The Extrovert’s Intuitive Collection. Hear firsthand how he has continued to create groundbreaking work while living with ALS, adapting his techniques to express the unstoppable force of creativity.
✨ ARTIST STATEMENT ✨
Perhaps a better title for this show of digital play would be, Domino Effect: The Inside Out Collection. But I chose the former title because by selecting pieces to show, that is the action of an extrovert—and heck, I love people. While working, I have little concern for what is going on outside of me. While working, I take precautions to eliminate outside influences such as music, TV, people, etc. Making is a form of alchemy. Not turning baser metals into gold or basic physical materials into art, but it is my process… my play for self-discovery, with the goal to transform baser man (self) into elevated spirit.
My process is like war. A battle of love and hate… likes and dislikes, a search for the unseen, a desire to abandon the world… self… to have absolute trust in God. Ideas are a dime a dozen. When I have a perceived notion—other than the materials I want to play with—it quickly evaporates with each mark made. From the first dot, slash, or splash made on the blank picture plane, I move into a meditative zone; a dialogue begins. It is an endless conversation. There is always something more to try in response to the present moment’s harmonies and discords of life’s sensual, fluxing symphony.
My last semester as an undergraduate in painting and drawing, I was painting on a large canvas and had the thought: why not take all the paintings I’ve done and make them into a drop cloth to catch drips of paint as I work on this one surface for the rest of my life? After graduation, I did that—but only worked the painting for a few weeks before tossing it out. My wife, son, and daughter have been my most appreciative audience. Mostly what I hear from them in general was, “You’re the bestest artist.” More specifically, day to day in my studio, they’d ask me, “Why did you ruin it?” For me, a work is never finished. It’s more like abandoned—but then there are some surfaces so plugged up, it’s more like, by death do us part.
After being diagnosed with ALS, I started learning Photoshop by doing photo restorations, which I still do today. Limited movement has turned me nowadays to only work digitally. Digital work/play, unlike traditional artist materials, has an undo button. It’s like you can stand some of the dominoes back up and move on a different highway to investigate where it leads. I should have taken my son’s advice from years ago—he had suggested taking photographs of my work before making big changes. I did start doing that the last few years while I could still paint and draw. That’s given me plenty of materials to pull from for moving in new directions and maintaining a wee bit of an organic feel. Most of the pieces in the show are created from scanning previous paintings and drawings—and occasionally photographs—then lifting and forming elements from them in Photoshop and collaging them into fresh compositions. I still enter that zone mentioned earlier, but as recognizable images emerge suggesting a narrative, I push the work to some form of aesthetic resolution. Thus, me the hypocrite, making finishing touches to pieces to hopefully make them visually acceptable to my audience. Works are titled after they are abandoned. It doesn’t matter what I see and/or get from the work. It’s my hope you take time to gaze and interact with pieces and, in at least a subtle way, are moved in a positive direction.
Jack Wilson
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