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Erin Wright

Los Angeles, California, USA

Artist Statement

Imagining the dinner table as an absurdist theater stage, the paintings map out the choreographed etiquette for a successful dinner party. This structured choreography unravels into a captivating canvas portraying the complex dance of social norms and behaviors. The compositions shed light on peculiar behaviors and rituals often overlooked in our conscious thought. Communal dining emerges as a profound exploration of human connection, prompting viewers to reconsider unspoken rules governing shared meals and offering unique insights into how we relate within this complex and delicate social ritual. Wright invites you on a visual journey beyond everyday actions, unraveling layers of meaning in seemingly ordinary communal dining—a unique lens providing profound insights into human relationships.

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Artist Biography

Erin Wright is a painter and professor of architecture at Woodbury University. She studied fine arts at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (BFA, 2012) and architecture at the University of California, Los Angeles (M. Arch, 2016). Wright's paintings, which are colored by the classic still-life genre and appear digitally produced, depict intimate and ruinous relationships between objects and characters that are not present. Through her compositions, Wright explores ideas such as indifference and presentation, examining every
detail equivocally. Groupings and relationships between objects are rendered non-hierarchically, becoming blatantly arbitrary with uncanny relationships to their surroundings and contexts.
Wright has participated in numerous exhibitions at Sow & Tailor, Los Angeles (2023), Wedge Gallery, Burbank (2022, 2018); Field Projects, New York (2022); Spring/Break Art Show, Los Angeles (2022); New York Design Week, New York (2021); Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn (2020); and Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York (2017). Her work has been featured in ArtMaze Magazine, New American Paintings, AD Magazine, and The New
York Times.

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