Laurie Wilson

Laurie Wilson earned her undergraduate degree in art history from Wellesley College, her master¹s degree in Fine Arts and Fine Arts Education from Columbia University, and her Ph.D. in Art History from City University of New York. She received psychoanalytic training at The NYU Psychoanalytic Institute where she is on the faculty as Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Psychoanalytic Institute affiliated with NYU Medical Center and practices in New York City. She directed the Graduate Art Therapy Program at New York University for twenty-three years and is Professor Emerita there. She has published extensively in three fields – art therapy, art history, psychoanalysis and art therapy. Her book Alberto Giacometti: Myth Magic and the Man was published by Yale University Press in 2003. She is currently completing a biography of Louise Nevelson.

Three Trees: Alberto Giacometti’s Art as Theatre and History

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Playwright Alvin Eng and Art Historian Laurie Wilson will discuss Eng’s play, “Three Trees,” a historical drama that explores the unique relationship between 20th century Parisian artist, Alberto Giacometti, and his muse/model, Japanese Existential Philosopher, Isaku Yanaihara. The Pan Asian Repertory Theatre will present the World Premiere of this play at the West End Theare, … Read more