"You know, information is everywhere," Joseph Olisaemeka Wilson told us in our FALL Quarterly. "You just gotta turn over every stone, check behind every tree, and make sure you look at the back of the book. Everything. And then string it all together somehow. Then you have your version of the truth."
Derek Eller Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new paintings by Joseph Olisaemeka Wilson entitled Hard Times and Silver Teeth at the Spicewood County Casino. For this show, Wilson tells a story set within a visionary casino, replete with masked and costumed gambler/performers and chimerical slot machine/animal hybrids which resemble altars. In this timeless context, Wilson’s poetic narrative walks the line between reality and imagination, and gambling becomes an allegory for life and love.
