“Lithium Signature” — The art of bipolar artist Adam Daley Wilson

Conceptual artist and painter Adam Daley Wilson talks about one of the realities that an artist with bipolar 1 faces with age: His oil paint lettering has a unique brushstroke due to chronic tremors in his hand arising from 22+ years of prescribed lithium to treat bipolar 1 — As he describes in this article, his bipolar 1 creates not just the ‘notions’ upon which he builds layers of meaning in his art — it also creates a unique tell-tale physical ‘lithium signature’ brushstroke.

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Adam Daley Wilson — outsider artist, represented artist, ENGAGE Projects Gallery Chicago. Conceptual art, painting, video informed by — not about — bipolar 1.

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Adam Daley Wilson

Adam Daley Wilson — outsider artist, represented artist, ENGAGE Projects Gallery Chicago. Conceptual art, painting, video informed by — not about — bipolar 1.