stephen curtis wilson photographs
"I'm interested in the artfulness of those things that make up the region where I've lived all my life. I'm a design junkie and seek out the time-worn, curious, and funky. I explore rural communities and urban neighborhoods for reminders of humanness, culture, and community. My photographs are little portraits, an investigation of this place. I continue to find my voice and moments when everything comes together are worthy of the worry."
Wilson was a medical, surgical, and generalist photographer, writer, and communication specialist in the health care and library science fields for 36 years - cut steel in a foundry and drove a truck for a time. He is a graduate of the fine arts program at Illinois Central College, received a BA from the University of Illinois, and is a juried Illinois Artisan for Photography, Illinois State Museum.

Dedicated
to John, my partner of
35 years (2009), and the furry little ones that were family.
I miss
you guys.

"Wilson's Sprinkmann Building
has, somehow, the calm, authoritarian clownishness
our great politicians aim for
but don't achieve."
Foundry Gallery, Washington DC
August 2020

Western Avenue, Peoria
Catalog Cover
Shadows and Light Exhibition
Black Box Gallery, Portland OR
"Don't confront me
with my failures,
I had not forgotten them."
These Days, Jackson Browne


Technicraft of Peoria
Designers, creators, builders, makers, installers and,
all really nice folks.
Peoria Art Guild
Burningword Literary Journal
LensCulture