Alexander Wilson Studio

Mark Dion gained an international reputation in the 1980s for his large, site-specific installations filled with materials he gathers, categorizes, and displays with the care of an archeologist or anthropologist. He plans his projects with detailed drawings such as "Alexander Wilson Studio", also the title of a multi-media work installed at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh in 1999. Wilson, a Scottish-American ornithologist and illustrator best known for his nine-volume tome of bird illustrations, is a typical subject for Dion, whose art is concerned with the organization and display of knowledge.