BIO
Born Charleston, SC
Lives Chicago, IL
Wallace's life involves all forms of art. He completed the double degree program with a B.A. in Studio Art and B.M. in Euphonium Performance from Lawrence University after five years of intense study. His painting medium of distinction is watercolor, but also freelances as a DJ, graphic designer, illustrator, and painting teacher. For his super senior project, he was awarded the Mellon Senior Experience Grant to fund his work for the Senior Exhibition 2011. His work series titled, "The Gilded Gaze: Gold Leaf and the Element of Seduction" earned him the merit-based "Senior Art Prize for Men" scholarship. He continued exploring watercolor and themes of sexual dynamics into graduate school at San Francisco Art Institute. He was admitted to the class of 2018 on Fellowship Scholarship. After graduating in May, his intention is to promote the inclusion and legitimacy of watercolor painting into the contemporary art scene by exhibiting and instructing higher education.
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
SOLO & DUO EXHIBITIONS
Down for the Count, Glen Ellyn Public Library, Glen Ellyn, IL, 2017
Sober Madness, Archer Beach Haus, Chicago, IL, 2016
Fructus mysticalus: Uncensored, Naperville Art League Gallery, Naperville, IL, 2016
Mystical Fruits, North Central College, Oesterle Gallery, Naperville, IL, 2015
Second Friday (Duo), Error Plain 206, Chicago, IL, 2014
Allegory & Emblems, If These Walls Could Talk, Aurora, IL, 2014
Provenance, If These Walls Could Talk, Aurora, IL, 2013
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
IWS 35th National Exhibition, The Next Picture Show, Dixon, IL, 2019
Best of the Best, Alliance of Fine Art, Oak Brook, IL, 2019
2018 SFAI MFA Exhibition, Fort Mason Campus Center, San Francisco, CA, 2018
The Love Below, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2018
Concentrate: Spectacle, Fort Mason Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, 2017
Figuratively Speaking, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2017
TWSA 40th Member Show, Kenosha Public Museum, Kenosha, WI, 2016
IWS 32nd National Exhibition, The Next Picture Show, Dixon, IL, 2016
IWS 31th National Exhibition, The Next Picture Show, Dixon, IL, 2015
Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods, Lumberwoods Gallery, Appleton, WI, 2014
IWS 30th National Exhibition, The Next Picture Show, Dixon, IL, 2014
Façade, Schoenherr Gallery , Naperville, IL, 2013
Two Years of Cloud Cover, The Black Cloud Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2012
Embody, The Black Cloud Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2012
