ABOUT
Jesse Lee Wilson is an Artist who has combined his background in art and design with an interest in social justice issues. Spanning from creative direction to brand partnerships, Wilson has dedicated himself to expanding the vision and reach of every organization and brand that he has worked with. His strength has been to move from the perspective of a big picture view of an overall goal to the understanding of individual and discrete components that need to be accomplished to add up to a whole. Wilson scales ideas and concepts to be attainable while maintaining their bold vision and then works step-by-step to move from a vision into a concrete reality. Throughout his career he has helped create innovative solutions to improve organization’s image and material existance.
I am interested in the organization of architecture and the built world, as well as its collision with systems and processes of the natural world, which imply their own logic and rebel against sterility. I am curious about the moment when one overtakes the other. My work catches materials in instances of rebellion against artifice, framing their attempts at return to a previous form or function. My working process tends to emerge out of the materials that I select for each piece, and broaden to include conceptual concerns, which these materials suggest. The work seeks a visual poetry elicited by a dialogue between natural, construct-ual, and graphic material.
The ecstatic use of color in my work is a response to the saturated visual landscape we live in. In many cases this intensified color defies the viewer to overlook it, but it is not just a call for attention. It is a reflection of Melville’s idea that most intense color re-captures the first experiences of sight – as if to see the world for the first time, all over again. In this sense Color in my work captures an innocence and pure intensity that is almost imaginary or stylized as compared with reality.