Paul Wilson
Open March 15, 2024
Curator Exhibition Statement
Some of us know Phoenix native Paul Wilson as “the guy who remade The Poseidon Adventure,” while others think of him as the artist whose work of the last 16 years has reimagined alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald as a swoony dreamboat who never hurt a fly. Still others know Wilson as “that 1950s guy” whose beautify-appointed mid-century home has been documented in print and on television.
An Evening with Paul Wilson is a celebration of all of these men. One of Arizona’s most fascinating local artists, Wilson is a painter, filmmaker, and assemblage artist who’s fascinated with pop culture and post-Cold War chaos; a man whom Kirstie Alley once referred to in The National Enquirer as “that weirdo who’s in love with my husband.”
- Robrt Pela
October 2023
The phICA Virtual Exhibitions Initiative is made possible through the generous support of Arizona Commission on the Arts/National Endowment for the Arts, City of Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture, Laurie and Tom Carmody/The Carmody Foundation, Brendan Mahoney and Gordon Street, Bobby Walker and Michael L. Zirulnik, Erin Hubbard, and Ted Decker Catalyst Fund.
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Exhibited Artworks
- The Courtesy Lady
- Random Aliens
- Parker Stevenson Being Checked Out
- Parker Stevenson in the 80s
- Anonymous Aspen Colorado Construction Worker
- Sexy Aspen Colorado Constrution Worker (detail)
- Neely O’Hara
- A Kimble Family Meal, 1955
- Dick Kimble's 40th, 1958
- Poseidon Adventure ballroom diorama
- New Jersey, 1936
- Times Square, 1945
- North Atlantic, 1912
- First Base
- Malt Shop
- On the Bow
- Wrong Booth, Superman
- Mona Lee-sa
- Roses, Not Guns (An Homage to Grant Wood’s “American Gothic”)
- Sunday Morning
- Yellow Purse and Toaster
- Lee's Pretty Sunbeam
- Toastmaster General
- Lee's First Toaster
- Just like Mommy's!
- The Poseidon Adventure Re-Imagined
- Paul Photographs Lee Oswald's Pits and Trail as Marilyn Laughs and Laughs and Laughs
- Hurricane Lee Lets the S.S. Poseidon Pass
- No One Better Steal Our Stollen!
- It's Warm out Today
- Really Warm out Today
- Yeah, it's Really Warm and Who Cares!
- Lee Starts His Day with Best Intentions