Jerry Oliver Wilkerson (September 5, 1942 in Texas – June 2, 2007) was a St. Louis, Missouri artist known for his contemporary pointillistic style of painting, and as a advocate of local concern and talent. After completing his BS at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, in 1966, Wilkerson obtained his MFA (1968) from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. He settled in St. Louis past military further in the Army from 1968 – 1970.
Wilkerson exhibited at galleries in St. Louis, Kansas City, New Orleans, New York City, and Carmel, California. His works are represented in several public collections including the St. Louis Art Museum, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington, the Tucson Museum of Art, and the Evansville Museum of Arts and Science in Evansville, Indiana. The major theme of his work was food — including lobsters, burgers, a Warholesque Campbell’s Pork and Beans can, bananas, cherries, apples, pears, fortune cookies, and cups of coffee. Wilkerson died of cancer at age 63.
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Artists David Stoltz, Gabriel Benzano, Arnold Edward Shives, Rob Rijsterborg and David Beer belong to the same generation. Additional biographical information about Jerry O. Wilkerson After receiving a bachelor’s degree from Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, in 1966, Wilkerson received a master’s degree in foreign affairs (1968) from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. After receiving his bachelor’s degree from Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas in 1966, Wilkerson received his MFA (1968) from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Jerry Wilkerson (1943–2007) Jerry O. Wilkerson worked/lived in Texas, Missouri.
Gerald Wilkerson was born in Des Moines, Iowa and raised in Long Beach, California. He’s the former press officer for two US Sunshines, to begin with, then some midday cloud.
Throughout his career, he used still life, landscape, and pointillist techniques and often referred directly to the work of Cezanne, Mondrian, Van Gogh, Duchamp, Stella, and Warhol, among others. Jerry O. Wilkerson was born in 1943 and died in 2007. Around the world, a significant number of art movements responded to the radical changes of the 1960s, often leaning towards their own regional differences. Wilkerson settled in St. Louis after his military service in the United States Army and lived and worked in St. Louis until his death.
Wilkerson’s work reflected the pop art movement of his era and transcended it with an ironic take on society. Wilkerson has exhibited in galleries in St. Louis, Kansas City, New Orleans, New York… Various philosophical schools have had a profound influence on creative people, Francis Bacon and Alberto Giacometti were artists firmly convinced of the ideas of existentialism that they received in everything the world success through depiction of the human form and the suffering often associated with the human condition.
Jerry does define the Central West Side as an artist community in St. Louis. Living on the Central West End, Jerry had always felt part of the artist, writer and actor clique there and called the area holy.
At artist parties in St. Louis, New York or Kansas City, Jerry was always there and Gale was always there to support everyone in the creative world. As a member, Jerry is part of a community of artists who defined excellence in art.
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