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Michael Wilkinson is a sculptor, poet, storyteller, and architect. The uplifting power of his art raises our consciousness to a higher level of life appreciation and thrills us with its pure beauty in endless guises. His dreamlike worlds, illuminated by compassion, understanding, and romance, emerge like sparkling gems. They are all lit from the same source, an abiding confidence in the human spirit and a passion for life and living. Working for nearly a decade in optically clear acrylic material, Wilkinson constantly expands his talents to sculpt "light" in original ways. He has advanced the art form into unique patterns of optical illusion and captured our attention both aesthetically and emotionally.

In 1979, Michael Wilkinson moved from California to New York in order to take his life-long love of art to a new level. Leaving a career in architecture in Carmel, California, Wilkinson moved east with hopes of making sculpture his profession. It was in 1985, in those early years of experimentation that Wilkinson, who had until then worked uniquely in bronze, was introduced to the young medium of cast acrylic. Although developed in the late 1800's, acrylic was not available to the figurative sculptor until the early 1980's. Before that time, artists such as Louise Nevelson and Alexander Calder used acrylic in a constructionist manner cutting and gluing forms to create their works. With the advent of new molding technology significantly increasing interest in acrylic by a broader spectrum of artists, it soon became the medium of choice to a handful of figurative sculptors seeking to communicate complex themes incorporating realism with their art. Unlike the traditional, these acrylic sculptures have no beginning and no end; no back and no front. They are viewed in a new way; studied and observed in their entirety from the inside and the outside. Working for nearly a decade in optically clear acrylic material, Wilkinson constantly expands his talents to sculpt "light" in original ways. He has advanced the art form into unique patterns of optical illusion and captured our attention both aesthetically and emotionally


My acrylic sculptures are a blend of figurative and abstract forms, a fusion that I enjoy creating and to which acrylic is beautifully suited.   Acrylic is a truly modern material and working with it is like working with no other medium.  I start out with clay, a lump of earth, but end up having created an ethereal world infused by light. A wonderful aspect of acrylic sculpture is that it is clear and has an interior: a “fourth dimension” that allows the viewer to look into the artwork.  This characteristic offers the greatest challenge in working with the material because the original sculpture model is opaque clay or plaster.   While creating the model, I must envision through the plaster what is going on inside the work -- the reflections and refractions as they will appear in the final clear artwork.  This is the most difficult aspect of my acrylic art, but when I get it right it is the most satisfying.