About Sereno Wilson
Sereno Wilson (b. 1979) was born in Germany and moved to Chicago at a young age. A working artist at Gallery 37 (an arts training program for youth in Chicago) during his high school years, he became a very skilled painter while working on the program’s popular Park Bench Painting series. This technical skill has helped him to develop a unique style and process. When Wilson first began at Project Onward, he was still driven mainly by painting, though often incorporated glitter and other mixed media into his paintings and assemblages. Over time, the work became more and more about glitter, and the studio’s ability to supply the artist with an extensive assortment of glitter colors also led, over time, to an almost exclusively glitter-composition style. By “painting” with glue and applying blocks of color with glitter, Wilson creates spectacular images of celebrities and fellow artists, special commission portraits, and lucky images that express his hopeful sense of fortune and fate.
Sereno Wilson
Keeper of the Keys, 2018
mixed media on canvas
40” x 30”
$700
About Sereno Wilson
Sereno Wilson (b. 1979) was born in Germany and moved to Chicago at a young age. A working artist at Gallery 37 (an arts training program for youth in Chicago) during his high school years, he became a very skilled painter while working on the program’s popular Park Bench Painting series. This technical skill has helped him to develop a unique style and process. When Wilson first began at Project Onward, he was still driven mainly by painting, though often incorporated glitter and other mixed media into his paintings and assemblages. Over time, the work became more and more about glitter, and the studio’s ability to supply the artist with an extensive assortment of glitter colors also led, over time, to an almost exclusively glitter-composition style. By “painting” with glue and applying blocks of color with glitter, Wilson creates spectacular images of celebrities and fellow artists, special commission portraits, and lucky images that express his hopeful sense of fortune and fate.
