Alexander Richard Wilson

Housing gallery is proud to present a solo exhibition of the work of Alexander Richard Wilson, a multifaceted artist whose practice and interests are rooted in the history of art and architecture.

The gallery has curated a selection of his prolific landscape series which evokes a time after a plague. From St. Louis to Maine and then Miami—Alexander meditates on his surrounding acting as an interpreter of an atmosphere that can only be seen on yupo, linen, and canvas.

Alexander Richard Wilson is an African American contemporary artist living and working In Denver Colorado. Wilson’s painting and sculpture practices reference the spaces and depths of the American landscape we occupy, and the literal relationships between figurative shapes in image and form. Referencing their history as the product of a large, African American family, and their present context as a queer black body in the American West. They work to represent the present conditions relative to climate change and the ongoing cultural shift in American society with gestural clarity.

Wilson was born and raised in Saint Louis, Missouri in 1993. Educated at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2017 and the Skowhegan school of Painting and Sculpture in 2022. They have exhibited at Union Hall in Denver, Thomas Masters Gallery in Chicago, Compound Yellow Gallery in Chicago, O’Connor gallery at Northwestern, NYC Studio school, and the Chicago Artists Coalition, Epoch Studios in Chicago, Housing Gallery in New York, Friend of a Friend gallery Denver, Deboer Gallery Los Angeles, and The Armory