Original Abstract Action Painting, "Lovely Bird"

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Edward Wilcox. Born 1967, West Palm Beach, Florida. Wilcox earned a BFA in Painting with highest honors from the University … more Edward Wilcox. Born 1967, West Palm Beach, Florida. Wilcox earned a BFA in Painting with highest honors from the University of Florida in Gainesville, where he also received the Presidential Award for Excellence in the Arts.
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His work is in the permanent collection of the Society of the Four Arts Museum in Palm Beach, FL, Nike World Headquarters in Washington County, OR, and the Armory Art Center in West Palm Beach, FL and has been exhibited at the Norton-Simon Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, FL, University Museum at the University of Florida in Gainesville, the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, FL and the GCAC at CSUF in Santa Ana, CA

Besides his 30 year career in Los Angeles Wilcox has exhibited his figurative work, abstracts and sculptures in New York, Miami, Berlin, and Palm Desert and has appeared in publications such as Re-Title, The LA Times, Juxtapoz, Coagula Art Journal, Ocean Drive, and FLAUNT Magazine and can be found in private and public collections across the United States and abroad.
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His work has been granted top awards by such prominent leaders in the art world as Ivan Karp (former OK Harris Gallery in NY), New York Times art critic Phyllis Braff, Richard Koshalek (former director of Los Angeles MOCA and now director of the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Gallery), Joram Deutsch (president and director of the Deutsch Foundation, Lousanne, Switzerland) Suzanne Delahantey (former director of MOCA Miami) and Hugh Davies, (director of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego).
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Wilcox presently lives and works in both California and on a remote island somewhere in North Central Florida.
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