ARTIST-PLACED PUBLIC DOCUMENT ART — THE LOCAL RULE OF LAW

COURTS AS OUR LAST HUMAN PLACE

ADAM DALEY WILSON - ENGAGE PROJECTS GALLERY CHICAGO

Artist-Placed Public Document Art by Adam Daley Wilson, full legal complaint presented visually on canvas with varnish, referencing Courts as Our Last Human Place and The Local Rule Of Law, concepts by conceptual Artist Adam Wilson, Portland Maine.
Post-Theory Art and Theory Art – Adam Daley Wilson Artist – Text-Based Art in relation to Post-Theory Art – Theory Art – Text-Based Art – Post-Theory Art As Conceptual Art – Post-Conceptual Art Post-Minimalist Art Post-Modern Art – Engage Projects
Post-Theory Art and Theory Art – Adam Daley Wilson Artist – Text Words Post-Minimalist Art - Post-Theory Art – Theory Art – Text-Based Art – Post-Theory Art As Conceptual Art – Post-Conceptual Art Post-Minimalist Art Post-Modern Art – Engage Projects
Inscription painting, Adam Daley Wilson, 2021, first solo show, Engage Projects Gallery Chicago. Adam Wilson is a conceptual artist who lives and works in Portland Maine.
Side-by-side images of law-as-art, this is an example of Artist-Placed Public Document Art by Adam Daley Wilson, pages of law presented visually on paper with oil paint, referencing Courts as Our Last Human Place and The Local Rule Of Law
Art-rendering of a legal document, a court transcript or complaint allegations, of Dana E. Prescott and Lani A. Remick engaging in mental illness stigma exploitation unethically, harming The Local Rule Of Law and Our Courts as Our Last Human Place.
Post-Theory Art and Theory Art – Adam Daley Wilson Artist – Text-Based Art - Law as Art - Post-Theory Art – Theory Art – Text-Based Art – Post-Theory Art As Journalism Art – Post-Conceptual Art Post-Minimalist Art Post-Modern Art – Engage Projects
Post-Theory Art and Theory Art – Adam Daley Wilson Artist – Text-Based Art in relation to Post-Theory Art – Theory Art – Text-Based Art – Post-Theory Art As Conceptual Art – Post-Conceptual Art Post-Minimalist Art Post-Modern Art – Engage Projects
Inscription painting, Adam Daley Wilson, 2025, third solo show, Engage Projects Gallery Chicago. Adam Wilson is a conceptual artist who lives and works in Portland Maine. Courts as Our Last Human Place. Only Humans May Judge Another Human.
Post-Theory Art and Theory Art – Adam Daley Wilson Artist – Art Happening in relation to Post-Theory Art – Theory Art – Text-Based Art – Post-Theory Art As Performance Art – Post-Conceptual Art Post-Minimalist Art Post-Modern Art – Engage Projects

About the practice in 2026 — Adam Daley Wilson

The local rule of law, courts as our last human place, and artist-placed public document art.

More information here — adamdaleywilson.com

About the artist

Adam Daley Wilson (b. 1971) is a self-taught conceptual artist represented by ENGAGE Projects Gallery in Chicago. He lives and works in Portland Maine.

His work manifests in oil painting, installations, video, and performance. He is also an emerging art theorist.

Daley Wilson’s practice blends cognitive and intuitive processes where he uses language in both legible texts and abstract personal writing systems to experiment with meaning-making and viewer interpretation.

His works are informed by his traditional education (Stanford Law, University of Pennsylvania) and his bipolar 1 —

Neurologically, when in hypomanias, his naturally high levels of dopamine and serotonin cause increased electrical connectivity in the frontal and temporal lobes, causing increased abilities to see relations, connections, and associations between things normally seen as far apart.

Daley Wilson’s works are in collections in New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Miami, and Chicago, and both solo shows so far were Artforum “Must See” shows in Chicago (2021, 2023).

As both a lawyer and as an artist he continues to brief issues is courts about Art Law, Constitutional Law, the First Amendment, and the Visual Artists’ Rights Act.

On the basis of his shows, the Berlin-based advisory Artfacts lists him in the top 5% of artists associated with post-conceptualism, conceptual painting, text-based art, and activist art.

As a self-taught artist indebted to mentors since his unexpected start in 2014, after a meds change by his psychiatrist, he informally mentors emerging artists in the US and several countries, and he raises and briefs issues of constitutional law and civil rights relating to individuals with mental illness disabilities.

 

Categories / Mediums

Oil Text Paintings and Inscribed Paintings

Abstract Personal Writing System Paintings

Oil Text Paintings On Photography

Installations and Performance

 

Selected Press and Publications

Third solo show THIS IS POST-THEORY ART reviewed in New City Art (Chicago) June 26, 2025

Second solo show THIS IS TEXT BASED ART featured in Mousse Magazine (Italy) in its “curated roundup of the best contemporary art exhibitions and events held by galleries, museums, and institutions in town during [EXPO Chicago 2023],” 4/10/23

Second solo show THIS IS TEXT BASED ART on Artforum’s must see list, 2023

First solo show ALREADY GONE on Artforum’s must see list, 2021

First solo show ALREADY GONE reviewed in New Art Examiner (Chicago), 3/21

NBC New Center Maine features, 2/16/21 and 2/23/21

 

Selected Performance Art Pieces and Happenings

If You Let Yourself Think About It (Theory Art Piece 1). Artist’s physical act of placing a VARA-qualifying text-based visual artwork, about a social justice legal theory of first impression in the United States, within the Supreme Court of a State, causing the justices to be both audience and actors in a happening about journalism as art and legal theory as art, 2023-2024.

Theory As Art, Journalism As Art, Law As Art (Theory Art Pieces 2, 3, 4). Ongoing placements of VARA-qualifying text artworks within judicial branches and courts, each causing happenings within courts as to the art of journalism, the art of law, and theory as art, 2023-2026.

Look At What We Have Created II. Live creation of personal writing system painting and happening with roughly 20 viewer-participants, second solo show, during EXPO Chicago, 2023.

Do You Own Conceptual Ownership? 4-day performance with video, installation, tangible art ownership experiment, and conceptual social justice ownership experiment. Guest artist project by invitation. The Other Art Fair New York, Nov. 8-11, 2018.

Some Feelings And Thoughts I’ll Have Any Second. 4-day performance with installation and conceptual video. The Other Art Fair New York, Nov. 18-22, 2017.

Look At What We Have Created. 12.25-hour performance walk through New York City, overnight, playing 6 tracks of audio from artist’s backpack, creating layers of words from academics personally known by the artist discussing issues from mass incarceration to LGBTQ+ rights, until the overlapping audio layers rendered the spoken words meaningless, Nov. 22-23, 2017.