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Grace Wright 'Un Portail Vers La Terre'
Estimate:
$3,000 - $4,000
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$7,000
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ARTIST
Grace Wright
Description
Grace Wright
Un Portail Vers La Terre, 2024
signed and dated verso
oil on canvas
400 x 300mm
Artist information:
Grace Wright
b. 1992
Lives and works in Auckland, New Zealand
In recent years, Grace Wright has taken the New Zealand art scene by storm. Her large-scale gestural abstract paintings have found a wide audience of admirers, and they have become increasingly sought-after by collectors. Wright’s paintings are entirely abstract, yet they can feel representational – an effect of her skilfully attuned palette and mark making. They often have a sense of visual depth, though do not achieve this through traditional techniques of perspective. Instead, the artist creates layers of abstract gestures with dazzling tonal and chromatic contrasts. The resulting layered visual field has a surreal, atmospheric quality that would be equally at home in either a historical painting or a fantasy videogame.
Atmospheric and gestural, Wright’s paintings invite the viewer into a world of tangled brush marks, which twist and convulse across the surface of the work, building anarchic structures and unravelling in moments of repose. These works reflect her world view, her coiling brush marks echoing the ‘rhythmic, cyclical nature’ she identifies as universal within the natural world. She sees the distinction between abstraction and figuration as blurry rather than sharp. Her paintings are works of gestural abstraction, yet they push toward representation. Though her mastery of her own specific artistic language, she creates paintings that convey atmospheric depth while still reading as abstract.
Wright graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from Elam School of Fine Arts in 2019. She exhibits regularly across New Zealand and Australasia and recently moved her artistic practice to Paris for several months of this year.
Gow Langford Gallery has represented Grace Wright since 2020.
Un Portail Vers La Terre, 2024
signed and dated verso
oil on canvas
400 x 300mm
Artist information:
Grace Wright
b. 1992
Lives and works in Auckland, New Zealand
In recent years, Grace Wright has taken the New Zealand art scene by storm. Her large-scale gestural abstract paintings have found a wide audience of admirers, and they have become increasingly sought-after by collectors. Wright’s paintings are entirely abstract, yet they can feel representational – an effect of her skilfully attuned palette and mark making. They often have a sense of visual depth, though do not achieve this through traditional techniques of perspective. Instead, the artist creates layers of abstract gestures with dazzling tonal and chromatic contrasts. The resulting layered visual field has a surreal, atmospheric quality that would be equally at home in either a historical painting or a fantasy videogame.
Atmospheric and gestural, Wright’s paintings invite the viewer into a world of tangled brush marks, which twist and convulse across the surface of the work, building anarchic structures and unravelling in moments of repose. These works reflect her world view, her coiling brush marks echoing the ‘rhythmic, cyclical nature’ she identifies as universal within the natural world. She sees the distinction between abstraction and figuration as blurry rather than sharp. Her paintings are works of gestural abstraction, yet they push toward representation. Though her mastery of her own specific artistic language, she creates paintings that convey atmospheric depth while still reading as abstract.
Wright graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from Elam School of Fine Arts in 2019. She exhibits regularly across New Zealand and Australasia and recently moved her artistic practice to Paris for several months of this year.
Gow Langford Gallery has represented Grace Wright since 2020.
