Fish Factory

Arista is an artist from Virginia, United States. Arista spent the month of September teaching a crash course ceramic intensive to community members from nearby fjords and international artists in residence! Outside of teaching, Arista spent time painting grass, picking blueberries, and making dumplings. 

Some thoughts on grass:

“Grass is green, grass is good. Golden strands stripe their way across green moss or peel out of blue snow. Grass can be one thing or many, a single line or a field of color. Grass stands strong atop the grandest mountains, and it billows gently around our homes, on roadsides and farm fields. Grass feels like comfort, found in all places. I spent two months in Iceland this year, and in that time I observed grass in many stages. Even in the most alien landscapes I found my old friend grass peeking through.

In my paintings, I’m interested in the feeling a landscape and the way a feeling can be built out of pattern, color, and line. I love the compositions found in a patch of foliage and the emerging layers of light. I’m curious about how a landscape can be abstracted, but the feeling can remain literal: sometimes pastoral, sometimes warm, sometimes joyous, sometimes melancholy, sometimes a feeling you remember but can’t quite name. Throughout all those feelings I find grass and I am moved by it’s sway.”

Website: https://aristawilson.com/

Profile from April 2024: https://inhere.is/2024/05/arista-wilson/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arista.wilson/

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