[BCN] Invitation to Cam Wilder's art opening, Saturday May 10, 3-5 pm

Fri May 9 16:32:05 EDT 2008

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 featuring Cameron Wilder's exhibition of paintings, "Marilyn and Friends," on Saturday, May 10, from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm, at the Middle East Restaurant, 472 Massachusetts Avenue, Central Square, Cambridge, MA. Refreshments will be served.

      Cam's paintings are already hung and are on display for the entire month of May. Drop in anytime to see them. 

      Cam extends thanks to the Out of the Blue Gallery and its owner Tom Tipton; and to the Abu-Sater family, proprietors of the Middle East Restaurant.

      Artist Statement
  by Cameron Wilder 

        The onslaught of popular culture contains a sterilizing aspect which depresses me. Reality shows, celebrity apologies, celebrity weight loss products 
  the whole thing seems to flatten out what it means to be human. For me, painting is a way to fight back.  

        I've been asked: "If you don’t like popular culture, why do you use movie stars and such in your art?” My response is: to transmute them, to give them energy, and embed them in the realm of the personal, the dream, and the collective unconscious. To dream them onto the canvas, to use them as one’s subconscious might in a dream, only this dream can be seen by others. In this way, I like to depict the mystery and power of the inner world, which is still safe from corporate development, for want of a better phrase.  

  Biography – Cameron Wilder 

        Cameron Wilder, a Bostonian, has loved art since getting lost in the illustrations of his dinosaur books as a kid. Illustrations of the natural world fascinated him with the music of their color and created space. Trips to the Museum of Fine Arts introduced him to the works of artists such as Edward Hopper, whose grandeur and melancholy stirred him; and Vincent van Gogh, whose Sunflowers seemed to contain the emotion of living stars. An English major in college who wrote poetry as an avocation for many years, he has come to find painting a more intuitive and satisfying pursuit.  

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