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Richard Wilson"Vernors & Oreos" Treats for Stevie Wonder, Still-Life, Oil, Colorful2019
2019
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“Vernors and Oreos” is a clever colorful piece by Richard Wilson that is full of significant meaning for native Detroiters. The beverage and cookies are specific treats for many people in Detroit and Michigan, but for Stevie Wonder in particular who is also a native Detroiter. The soda is produced and has been manufactured in the city of Detroit since 1862 by the Vernors Co. The story goes that prior to his concerts, Stevie Wonder, always requested that Vernors' Ginger Ale and Oreos be provided in his dressing room.
Wilson has a great admiration for Stevie Wonder and as a gift to the city of Detroit he painted a mural of Stevie Wonder on an outside wall of the Music Hall. The “Ginger Ale and Oreos” painting was a fun though much smaller addition to that project.
Richard Wilson began as a graffiti artist in 1984 when he began “writing” graffiti. He states: It’s something that never leaves you so even though from 1989 – 2012 I didn’t do any form of artwork at all, I was still heavily interested in who was up, who was writing, watching styles evolve.” In 2012 he started to get back into art, doing some pieces when he could but by then his fascination with portraiture had begun. He tried some different mediums and ways, pencil sketches and more realistic acrylic paintings, but he really wanted to be able to try and emulate art heroes like Belin and Smug and be able to paint faces in spray paint. He did his first one in June 2016.
At that time he was doing various large portraits in spray paint around his day job working at Bonhams Auctioneers which is where his love of portraits and figurative work really took hold. Daily he would be able to look at Old Master Paintings and also Contemporary pieces and it became a passion of his … to paint people that inspired him and art that tells a story and in particular to be able to paint big walls when he can and where he can paint something that can connect with the surround community. This aspect of Street Art/Mural art is extremely important to him.
In January 2017 he began using oil paints as well and since then has been focusing more on canvas pieces using mainly oils along with his mural work. He currently has a studio in West London working on his art full time taking on commissioned pieces and his own personal projects.
Richard painted a massive mural commemorating Motown great Stevie Wonder in Detroit on the side of Detroit’s Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts. It is a 100 foot-tall, 8,000-square-foot painting. Wilson started the project on Wonder's 69th birthday in May 2019 and completed in July of that year. This year also happens to mark the 60th anniversary of Motown records where Stevie Wonder got his start.
The painting without the frame measures: 20" h x 16" w.
- Creator:Richard Wilson (1980)
- Creation Year:2019
- Dimensions:Height: 23.5 in (59.69 cm)Width: 19.75 in (50.17 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Detroit, MI
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU128616761832
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