

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- Artist John Lytle Wilson will open his exhibition "Intermittent Pops of Whimsy" Friday, May 3, at 5 p.m. at TrimTab Brewing, 2721 Fifth Ave. South.



Wilson is known for his large acrylic paintings, some abstract, some depicting monkeys, robots, unicorns and other fanciful images. Others are "corrected" paintings with objects superimposed on existing art.



Educated at Birmingham-Southern College and Florida State University, Lytle was one of four Alabama artists named by Oxford American magazine in 2012 as "new superstars of Southern art." He teaches art at Birmingham-Southern, and at UAB, where he held an exhibition in May 2013 titled "The Shrine of the Most Glorious Future."



All of the works at the exhibition are for sale, with all proceeds going directly to the artist.