Conducts Zappa: The Perfect Stranger (1984), Francesco Zappa (1984) and Them Or Us (1984). The artist has written about his work stating – The dreams of my waking hours are superimposed against an almost unbroken background of imagery. I have a threshold mind, assembling materials from several conceptual sources–frontiers–welding them together. But I don't know exactly what it is that moves the directions of my thoughts, and I wonder almost constantly about the shaping spirit that works through me. For there is some forming process accompanying me which sweeps like a selective magnet across an utter chaos of patterns in my thinking, and the result is that an otherwise aimless flow of association–of mental wanderings–becomes documented. The documentations are what you see in paintings. I can say with absolute truth and authority that I am a bystander, and the things that stream together in my work set up a kind of subconscious existence of their own. And the only real control, on my part, is an ability to revive–voluntarily–that to which I have been exposed. Once, after and exhibition of my work in New York, I was quoted: "My paintings are reports which I bring home from my wanderings. Thay are maps." That is still true. Donald Roller Wilson (1979) Selected public collections Selected solo exhibitions 1998 Donald Roller Wilson: One Man Show, Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS 1997 Donald Roller Wilson: Paintings, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA 1989 Donald Roller Wilson, The Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL 1988 Roller: The Paintings of Donald Roller Wilson, Organized and toured by Mid-America Art Alliance, Kansas City, MO; traveled to: Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR; The Fine Art Center, Nashville, TN; Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, OK; Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX 1974 The Paintings of Donald Roller Wilson (catalogue), La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA 1970 Donald Roller Wilson, Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, MO 1970 Donald Roller Wilson, The City Arts Museum of St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 1969 Donald Roller Wilson, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX 1966 Donald Roller Wilson, Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS Bibliography Monographs Coe, Ralph T. 1979. The Dreams of Donald Roller Wilson. Hawthorn Books, Inc. Publishers. New York, New York. 127 pp. Frank, Peter. 1988. Roller: The Paintings of Donald Roller Wilson. Chronicle Books. San Francisco. 128 pp. Wilson,