Caroline Wright dances across her large abstract paintings, bringing music and movement to the visual field.
As a new mother of two, Wright considers the subversive potential in caretaking, and brings bodily, unmediated actions of mothering to the canvas. This includes finger painting and building chaotic texture from what’s around: cardboard, string, wood ash, pea gravel, and dying petals.
Broad experimentation combines with lyrical movement, harnessing rhythms and detonating emotion through color and form.
Wright graduated from Brown University, studying art, fashion, & art history abroad in Florence. She then helped establish the artists’ collective La Générale in the Belleville district of Paris, France, working there for several years. This imprinted a radical belief in collective possibility and her artistic vision & voice as the youngest member of the collective and the only American.
Wright returned to the U.S. and earned her MFA from The Art Institute of Chicago. She has performed at The Blanton Museum of Art, The Performing, Writing Symposium in Wellington, New Zealand, and as part of her solo exhibitions in New Orleans and Austin.
Wright loves to collaborate, speak to groups about the creative process, and encourage artists to take up space, explore deeply, and make a living with their art.
Caroline in “Complex Soil: A Studio Visit with Caroline Wright”
by Barbara Purcell in Glasstire.
There is a stormy femininity to Caroline Wright’s paintings, a soft signaling of chaos through swirls of darkness and light. Call it a kind of birth — Wright says becoming a mother naturally upped the ante of work…
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