On November 2, 1980 Joseph Wilson was born in his parents home in Alameda California one of the small city’s that creates the San Francisco bay area. From a young age his parents had him enrolled in art classes, but they were mostly painting and drawing classes. He grew a love for clay while in his junior year of high school, but it wasn’t until he enrolled in a local Junior college that his involvement with clay became more of a passion.
   

 

"I feel obligated as an artist to make an honest attempt to eliminate filters ingrained by morals, taboo, personal experience or anything that handicaps the individual through our social order. With these dissolved maybe beauty can surface in art, not as an object but as a notion of the fragility of being." 

 - Joe Wilson

 

For two years he took classes with Mark Messenger and Karl McDade, the faculty at Diablo Valley College.  Both, active ceramic artists with opposing styles one being a sculptor (Mark) and one being a potter (Karl) between the two Joseph was able to build a health vocabulary for form and aesthetics.

Joseph came to Hawaii to finish his undergraduate degree, currently he is working with Suzanne Wolfe and Shigeru Miyamoto at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in the BFA program to be completed this spring.