Author: Willson, MillieAccompanying the first retrospective exhibition showcasing three decades of work from Wilson, this publication delves into the influential, yet under-recognised, artist/educator whose work has deftly examined feminism, queerness & their historical erasure from art institutions. Featuring newly commissioned scholarly essays by curator David Evans Frantz and scholar Jill Casid, a conversation among artists who studied with Wilson, and extensive new photographic documentation.Her work joins 1980s postmodernism with the personally and politically charged conceptualism of the 1990s, reflecting a particularly unruly conception of queerness that emerged in California during these decades. The catalogue highlights Wilson’s appropriation of museum display practices and institutional authority, her art historical references to Dada and Surrealism, her sharp attention to gendered portrayals of sexual deviance in early 20th-century psychoanalysis and sexology, and her long-standing interest in bodies as contested sites. ISBN 9781941753750. Inventory Press. pb. 192 pages. 144 colour, 20 b/w ills. 29.8 x 21 cm.available
