John Lytle Wilson

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John Lytle Wilson (born February 9,1977 in Rock Hill, South Carolina) is an artist, best known for his brightly-colored paintings of cartoon robots, monkeys and unicorns engaged in combat or flight and sometimes invading kitschy landscapes from thrift store paintings.

Wilson came to Birmingham as a Birmingham-Southern College student. After graduating in 1999 he moved to China, New Orleans and Tallahassee, where he enrolled in graduate studies at Florida State University, completing his Master of Fine Arts in 2004. He and his wife then returned to Birmingham and he took a job at Wallace State Community College in Hanceville.

Wilson has exhibited locally at Artwalk, Clay Scot Gallery, Boutwell Studios, Magic City Art Connection and Rojo. He was also artist-in-residence at Gallery 621 in Tallahassee and has been shown in the Vienna Biennale, the Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences, and numerous other galleries.

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