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Artist Biography
The photorealism of Cindy Wright's large-scale portraits and still life paintings can often (perhaps ironically) bleed into abstraction. From a distance, her monumental paintings display snapshot characteristics, like cropped composition and intense single source lighting. However, upon closer inspection, the range of mark making and painterly application becomes astoundingly apparent. The paintings become a perceptual conundrum as an easily recognizable object dissolves into nonrepresentational shapes and brush strokes. Similarly, Wright’s juxtaposition of alluring mimesis and the subtly grotesque alludes to the intricate relationship woven between life and death, latent and manifest. 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 technique. Her subjects are taken from her immediate milieu and are transformed into iconic meditations on our own mortality.
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).
Selected Press
LA Canvas - Mark Moore Gallery: The Kids Are Alright
ArtLog - Contemporary Vanitas
Daily du Jour - Preview: Cindy Wright at Mark Moore Gallery
The Huffington Post - This ArtWeek LA
ArtWeek LA - Cindy Wright: Reality Can Be The Strangest Fantasy
Mark Moore Gallery Statements 8 - Cindy Wright
Arrested Motion - PULSE '11- Cindy Wright @ Mark Moore
ArtInfo - Pulse Art Fair
PULSE NY 2011 Pamphlet -
Cindy Wright - E-Catalog
Las Vegas Art Museum - Paintings 2004 - 2006 Catalog
Cool Hunting -
Young Belgian Painters Award - 2005 - Peter Doroshenko
Janus 17/04 - Hilde Van Gelder