The hyperrealism of Cindy Wright's large-scale portraits and still-life paintings can often (perhaps ironically) bleed into abstraction. From a distance, her monumental paintings appear to be photo-realistic, displaying snapshot characteristics like cropped composition and intense single source lighting. However, on closer inspection, the range of mark making and painterly applications becomes astoundingly apparent. The paintings become a perceptual conundrum as an easily recognizable object dissolves into abstract shapes and brush-strokes. They are conceptually rooted within an artistic tradition that forces the viewer to question the nature of how we read and understand the world, and they yet remain entirely contemporary in their painterly treatment. Her subjects are taken from her immediate world and are transformed into iconic and timely images.
Born in 1972 (Herentals, Belgium), Cindy Wright received her Masters in the Visual Arts in painting from the Royal Academy for Fine Arts, Antwerp (Belgium). She has since earned solo exhibitions in Amsterdam, Brussels, Antwerp, Los Angeles and Las Vegas, and exhibited internationally with group shows in New York, Brussels, Rotterdam, Chicago, Athens, London, Madison and others. Her work can be seen in the public collections of the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation (CA), Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (WI), the West Collection (PA), Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (CA), Las Vegas Art Museum (NV), National Bank of Belgium (Belgium) and the Province of Antwerp (Belgium).
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