ATTENTION Mobile!
Paul's painting exhibit "Silent Majority" opens at Wellborn Ideas (on Dauphin Street near the Cathedral) Friday, July 13th!!! It'll be during the city's monthly Art Walk, so there'll be plenty of other artists and their work nearby to take in as well! So come out! It all starts at 6pm!!!
HERE is the facebook invite and below is a description of the show :
Paul Cordes Wilm's art has been dubbed
"Folk-Pop", but “You won’t see much folk in it,” says Wilm. “These
pieces are more pop. There’s a little edge of sarcastic humor to them.
This collection has political stuff and focuses on issues that I’ve
never explored before.”
According to Wilm, the pieces focus on the immediate environment of
Alabama. “People have things to say, but they’re so distracted they
feel they can’t say anything. They feel interrupted.”
The
interruptions Wilm refers to are junk mail and forced consumerism, and
these are on display with advertisements torn and collaged into many of
the pieces. “In this day and age with things like Google and Wikipedia,
people are used to having everything completely explained to them.
It’s taking away our ability to explore things without ready-made
answers and definitions.”
Many of the works contain censor bars
over the eyes of the subject while others have empty quote bubbles
above their heads. One piece could easily belong in a ’50s cartoon with
people dressed in luxury clothing protesting with a large, blank sign.
Wilm’s pieces are painted with leftover house paint on reclaimed or
found wood.
“I want my work to be affordable for people,” says Wilm, whose pieces in this collection range from $75 – $500.
