Raandesk Gallery of Art announces the exhibition of mixed-media works by Robert Kent Wilson. Drawing from a selection of works created between 2000 and 2010, Robert Kent Wilson: Pixel by Pixel presents an overview of the artist’s evolution throughout the past 10 years. On view will be richly hued abstract landscapes and object studies that draw corners, crevices, and background imagery to the forefront in striking investigations of color, texture, focus, and form.

Taking as his starting point what he calls “discarded stimuli”, or those normally overlooked points of focus, Wilson assembles collages made of written text and found materials such as discarded photographs, color sketches, leaves, and tree bark. A small cropped-out area of this preliminary “sketch” is then enlarged to as much as 100 times its original size, digitally printed, and mounted or framed using pieces of architectural material such as beams, doors, and molding. Without pure figuration or sharpness of focus, the resulting works bring once-unnoticed details into sharp relief. Organic patterns and textures come together with bold colors in candid and revelatory explorations of small spaces, quiet details, and transitions in space and time.

A native of Washington, D.C., Robert Kent Wilson received a BFA in Fine Arts from the Tyler School of Art before working in graphic design while simultaneously pursuing fine art. His work has been exhibited at venues including Heinemann Myers Gallery in Bethesda, MD, APEX Gallery and the Artists’ Museum in Washington’s Penn Quarter Arts District. Additionally, Wilson has completed a number of private commissions and public art projects, such as Dupont Circle Art on Call, the 400 Massachusetts Avenue: Some New Color installation, and most recently, the DCCAH Art in Public Places commission and most recently the DCCAH comprehensive Artist Created – Metropolitan Branch Trail Identity and Public Art Projects. Wilson is the Principal and Creative Director of BLANK, a design firm in Washington, DC and a part-time design faculty member at Catholic University in Washington, DC.