In The Eyes of Each – Lisa Wright
FACTION Art Projects @ Gallery 8 New York
2602 Frederick Douglass Blvd. Harlem, New York City. NY 10030
Friday November 2 – Sunday November 25, 2018
Opening Reception: Thursday November 1, 2018
Faction Art Projects has announced a solo show of paintings by award-winning British artist Lisa Wright. In The Eyes of Each will be Wright’s most ambitious exhibition in New York.
In The Eyes of Each will present a series of oil paintings which Wright refers to as her ‘inner landscape’ series, figurative works that embody natural landscapes. Wright’s inner worlds encompass fauna, trees, birds, insects and sky.They draw our attention back to nature and remind us of our responsibility to protect Earth’s ecosystem.
The figures of varying scale stand alone and out of context, they are transient and timeless.The careful balance of both figurative and abstract elements, along with a heightened and often sensual use of colour, emphasise the vibrant and contemporary nature of the work.
Wright is recognised for her distinctive figurative paintings that explore the physical and emotional state of childhood and adolescence. Her work is informed by subtle references to historical painting. Abstract sensibilities are upheld by masterly draughtsmanship and painterly use of colour, liberal and seductive in its application and brushwork, enhancing the emotional impact of her often large scale works.
Art Critic Lizzy Lloyd summarised Wright’s paintings in her introduction to The Unversed, 2015. She says
“When Wright cedes total control of her image and her paint, the work begins to take hold of you not by its staged loveliness but by its ineffable strangeness.”
Since completing her post graduate studies at the Royal Academy Schools London in 1992,Wright’s paintings have been exhibited nationally and internationally with solo presentations in London, New York, Hong Kong, Basel and Miami. Notable awards include The NOA Prize,The Hunting Art Prize and the 2013 Threadneedle Prize. In 2012 Wright was invited to be an Academician of The Royal West of England Academy.
