Biography

I’m an artist and creative writer NATIVE TO San Diego, California. My inspiration comes from THE NATURAL WORLD, where i OFTEN WALK, explore, look closely AND TAKE PHOTOS of the details. i inspect NATURE’S colorS, patternS, SHAPEs and designs.

IN CALIFORNIA WE HAVE THE ENORMOUS PACIFIC OCEAN AND VAST COASTLINE, miles of BEACHes WITH towering CLIFFS, rockY OUTCROPS, DRY GRASSES AND WET green, or DRY, neutral-COLORED SAND, fuschia and pink bougainvillia trees, violet jacarandas and fuschia-flowering succulents. i keep my palette AS CLOSE TO NATURE AS POSSIBLE.

WHILE I’M WALKING, MUSIC enters my head. i often title my works after A SONG AND SOMETIMES, I PAINT TO EXPRESS THE FEELING inspired by A PARTICULAR PIECE OF MUSIC. OTHERwise, I CHOOSE A RANDOM IDEA OR MEMORY THAT RESONATES AT A PARTICULAR MOMENT IN TIME.

I’ve realized I like painting for its physicality and I like to write because I love to work with words. together i try to create a feeling of pure expression.

in 2014 or so, i began to make digital artworks using an ipad or iphone and photos from my walks; some from 2016-2019 are listed here. I took up acrylic painting most recently in 2020 during the pandemic, in response to the chaos and uncertainty in the world.

education

I STUDIED at san diego state university (2009-2013), EARNING AN MFA IN CREATIVE FICTION WRTING, AND AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO (1992-1995) FOR MY BA IN COMMUNICATIONS STUDIES. FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE SEE MY COMPLETE BIO.

PRESS

Art on 30th-Ashton Gallery – “Some Like it Hot” – A juried regional show – August 20, 2022.

SHOUTOUT SOCAL – INTERVIEW WITH CARLA WILSON – MAY 3, 2022

New Books in Film series podcast interview by Joel Tscherne, February 2018.  You can listen to his interview with me about my books here.

Women in the Arts, San Diego – Carla M. Wilson – Video interview by sculptor/artist Dia Bassett – June, 2015

Projects

The New Post-literate: A Gallery of Asemic Writing – 7 x 10 Mixed Media Collage – April 23, 2021

The New Post-literate: A Gallery of Asemic Writing – 7 x 10 Mixed Media Collage – March 31, 2021

Le Scat Noir Encyclopédie et Dictionnaire de la Pataphysique, des arts et du savoir humain: Volume Deux  (various entries) Paperback – December 7, 2020

Call and Response: Collaboration at a Distance, Round 6 – Digital Artwork Collaboration with Tami Tsark – September 5, 2020

Moon Over #14 (Le Scat Noir Book of Bedside Nonsense, Absurdist Texts and Documents #39, 2020) – June 2020

Gwendolyn’s Journey (Le Scat Noir Book of Bedside Nonsense, Absurdist Texts and Documents #39 – Editorial Assistant to Penelope Goddard) – June 2020

The Lightbulb – Podcast Series by Carla M Wilson – April, 2020

American Book Review, volume 40, number 3 – Review of Eckhard Gerdes’ Marco & Iarlaith – March/April, 2019

Finding Mememo, JEF Books, James Hugunin – Features artwork by Carla M. Wilson – February 2019

The Best of Le Scat Noir – Anthology – February 2019

Between the Pages: Chapter 1 – Welcome to Carla’s Library, November 2018

New Books in Film series podcast interview by Joel Tscherne, February 2018.  You can listen to his interview with me about my books here.

Le Scat Noir Encyclopaedia  Various entries –  December, 2017

Curious Impossibilities: Ten Cinematic Riffs – September 2017

American Book Review, volume 38, number 1 – Review of Impossible Conversations by Eckhard Gerdes – Nov/Dec 2016

Le Scat Noir #222 – Digital Painting, Untitled – April 2017

Le Scat Noir #222 – Adrienne Auvray and Felix Feneon  – April 2017

Journal of Experimental Fiction & Offbeat/Quirky Books –  March 2017

Le Scat Noir #221 – Adrienne Auvray and Felix Feneon  – March 2017

Le Scat Noir #219 – The Eleventh Victim – January 2017

Chroma – Chroma explores themes of color and vibrancy through a variety of media.  Petite Rose and Petite Fleur, 6 x 6 digital paintings mounted on wood panels – November 2016

Black Scat Review #16 – Flash fiction titled: Out of Time – October, 2016

Black Scat Review #15 – Humorous essay, Geyser – May, 2016

Pissiors, Bidets, Crappers & Thrones – Parody, Photography.  Black Scat Books, publisher.  Released May 2016 under the pseudonym Adrienne Auvray.

Journal of Experimental Fiction – Sore Eel Cheese by The Flakxus Group –    January 2016

Sleipnir Literary Journal: Turning the Page: A Dialogue with Jeffrey DiLeo   – December 28, 2015

Black Scat Review #13 – (Interview with Madge Gill) – November 2015

The Eighth Madness: An Anthology Compiled by Dominic Ward –             Published by Dirt Heart Pharmacy Press – October 2015

Impossible Conversations: Imaginary Interviews with World Famous Artists –  Fiction collection published by Black Scat Books – August 2015

Gaslamp Illustration – (Collaboration with Norman Conquest) Black Scat Books –  Broadsides Series #4 – July/August 2015

Women in the Arts, San Diego – Carla M. Wilson – Video interview by sculptor/artist Dia Bassett – June, 2015

Black Scat Review #11 (Interview with Louise Bourgeois) – April, 2015

&Now 2015 conference reading at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California with “Friends of JEF” (Journal of Experimental Fiction). Other writers included Eckhard Gerdes, Tantra Bensko, and Xeňa Stanislavovna Semjonová. – March 27th, 2015

Brooklyn Art Library: The Sketchbook Project – 5 x 5 Series Poetry – 2014

Talking Writing – Holiday issue 2014, December/January, 2014

Black Scat Review, #9-10 (Special Double issue) – November, 2014

Black Scat Review, #7 (Special Lit Noir issue) – May, 2014

Sleipnir Literary Journal, Volume #1 – April, 2014

Icebox – January 30, 2014 (haiku)

Fiction International, Issue #46: Real Time/Virtual – Fall/Winter 2013

Talking Writing  – Featured Comment, June 2013

Black Scat Review, Volume #3 – Artist Dialogues, May 2013

Reading with Harold Jaffe and Shane Roschlein – SDSU Love Library April-May 2013

Poetry International Online – Review of Harold Jaffe’s Revolutionary Brain, April 2013

Reading with Harold Jaffe and Shane Roschlein, – Cal State San Marcos, March 2013

The Epistolarium, Volume #2 – forthcoming, Summer 2013

Pure Haiku – multiple,  May – June 2013

MFA Graduate Reading on behalf of Fiction International with Andy O’Clancy, Shane Roschlein, Ryan Forsythe, and Harold Jaffe, SDSU Scripps Cottage, May 9th, 2013

A Blackbird Sings, A Book of Short Poems, July 2012

A Handful of Stones –  micro poems, multiple issues

Personhood – The Book, Summer 2012

The Letter Project – ongoing, 2011 – 2013

Talking Writing – featured comment, January 2011

IUOMA – Member, International Union of Mail Artists

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