San Francisco Chronicle | Marie Wilson’s first San Francisco solo show in 40 years reclaims a surrealist pioneer

By Tony Bravo

 

 

If you don’t know the work of artist Marie Wilson, you’re not alone. But with the California-born artist now on the verge of long overdue mainstream rediscovery, you will soon. 

 

“Marie Wilson: A Poet of Forms and Colors” marks the American surrealist artist’s first solo show in San Francisco in more than 40 years. On view through March 14 at Gallery Wendi Norris, it features 16 paintings and seven works on paper, charting her early, biomorphic forms and surreal landscapes to the symmetrical compositions that came to define her practice. 

 

Read the full article at sfchronicle.com.

March 4, 2026