STATEMENT BY THE ARTIST
At this point in time I see around me the evolution of culture dictated by media as it washes the hands of commerce and sets the stage for a new morality. Once long held conventions, paradigms of thought, tradition, and cultural value now give way to a new world obsessed with personal ambition and material gain. With the romance of being now draining away from daily life I draw on memories past in order to cope with the present. Caught in a cycle of hope against despair I struggle to make peace with what is happening around me. Changes in lifes stage once so drawn and gradual as to not be witnessed in a single lifetime now pass in a decade. We are now racing away from what once was, bringing with it a blending of nostalgia and decline. The speed of progress now draws a vacuum and pulls me in unwillingly. - Edward Walton WilcoxIntelligent, intense, obsessive and very talented, Wilcox can draw, paint or construct anything from his fertile imagination. His gothic sensiblility covers everything from Medieval-style altarpieces to dark parodies of Renaissance portraits, to landscapes that summon-up 19th century horror novels or unidentified flying objects from 21st century Science Fiction and beyond. Beneath all the pyrotechnics is the work of a serious artist, gently jolting the viewer out of conventional thinking and predictable ways of seeing.Carl Van Brunt, Van Brunt GalleryBeacon, NY"Wilcox uses glazes, paint removers and a sepia palette to construct glossy memento moris such as substance-abusing young blonds and Neutras flambs. Playing off the lurid Gothic Romantic style, Wilcox says his works, like the movement he references, rebuke and seduce..."Mindy Farrabee, Los Angeles Times"Edward Walton Wilcoxs work exhibits an eerie quality that is hard to keep your eyes off of. He uses symbols like the Hollywood sign to make suggestions about how todays Tinseltown contrasts with the city of yesteryear. Moreover, the suggestions he makes are often unsettling. His images are dark, yes, but its a darkness that Wilcox suggests should be more closely examined."Christy Dusablon, Art and Living"Edward Wilcox's visionary paintings conjure a return to the roots of Northern European art caricaturing a deliberately primitive world which, in all ways, is allegory, a grouping of emblems, an assemblage of symbols bearing witness to the truth beyond."Lucy J. KimFLAUNT Magazine … Read More