For my presentation and paper, I chose to go with Liliana Wilson as my artist. After going through the list of provided artists I found a few of Liliana's paintings very relatable to my self. I find the settings of her artwork simple yet the interpretations can be endless.
Liliana Wilson was born in the coastal city of Valparaiso, Chile, the Austin-based artist Liliana Wilson practiced drawing at an early age, but thought that she would make her living in either architecture or law. While attending law school in 1973, her studies were cut short by the political atrocities that began when the militaristic regime of Augusto Pinochet ousted the democratic government of Salvador Allende. Under Pinochet’s dictatorship, which lasted until 1990, approximately 3,000 dissidents, known as “the missing,” were arrested by the military junta and never again seen, and an estimated 200,000 Chileans, including Wilson, were forced to flee the country.
Since she had a friend living in Austin, Wilson settled there in 1977. While working menial jobs, she returned to a childhood pastime and took up drawing again. Encouraged by Chicana artists, writers, and activists, Wilson took drawing courses at Austin Community College in the ’80s and studied painting at Texas State University in the ’90s. She had her first solo exhibition at Austin’s La Peña gallery in 1989, and has been actively exhibiting ever since. She has exhibited throughout the United States, Mexico, and Italy.
Most of Liliana's art tends to focus on the same children in different sceneries, usuallly in a boat or on a sphere.
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