On February 19, 2026, Gallery Wendi Norris hosted a conversation on Marie Wilson between Further Triennial Executive Director Zully Adler and Assistant Curator of Painting and Sculpture at SFMOMA Marin Sarvé-Tarr, in celebration of A Poet of Forms and Colors, Wilson's first exhibition in San Francisco since 1984.
Over the course of six decades, Marie Wilson produced a revelatory and singular body of work that was rooted equally in the cultural and spiritual milieu of Northern California and the Bay Area of her youth, and in the intellectual currents of European surrealism, which she experienced while living and working among the movement’s central figures. Through biomorphic and geometric forms—ranging from semi-abstract arrangements to the exactingly symmetrical compositions of her mature period—Wilson created oil paintings, drawings in ink and pencil, lithographs, and ceramics that explored new surrealist horizons and expanded the possibilities of modern art.
Marie Wilson: A Poet of Forms and Colors is on view at Gallery Wendi Norris, January 20 – March 14, 2026.
