Abby Wright
I play with the failures of anthropomorphic perception to create experimental abstract films
and performances by use of different media such as music, sculpture, painting, and text. My work interrogates characters we play for other people and ultimately how I as an artist perform.
I explore the performance of mark making techniques, and sculpture as one of many characters for a photograph. My aim is to play. To engage the pleasure principle by experimenting with aspects of touch. I explore space and the physicality of touch by creating a landscape through nontraditional mark-making by putting oil pastels in-between my fingers and toes.
Abby is a post-structuralist multidisciplinary American artist. Before completing her Masters in Contemporary Photography; Practices and Philosophies at Central Saint Martins, she previously graduated with a BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She has been focusing on metal work, painting (with silicone/resin/natural minerals), and moving images.
Artist
Education
MA// Central Saint Martins// Contemporary Photography: Practices and Philosophy, May 2020
BFA// School of Visual Arts// Photography, March 2014
3d Metal Workshop certificate// Central Saint Martins, 2020
Experience
Artist // Abby Wright, 2008-current
Contributing Editor// Schon! Magazine 2019-current
Exhibitions, Residencies and Publications
Publication, Divison Review, New York, New York, Fall 2022
Visiting Lecturer, MA Transdisziplinarität ZHdk, Zurich, Switzerland, December 2021
Group Exhibition, “Finally”, Ugly Duck, London, United Kingdom, September 2-5th 2021
Solo Show, Litla Gallery, Hafnarfjördur, Iceland, April 2021
Group Exhibition, Field Recordings, Reykjavik, Iceland,April 2021
Curator, Group Exhibition, The Castle, Arthousehaus, London, UK
Group Exhibition, Absolutorium, Korpùlfsstadir, Reykjavik, Iceland, February 2020
Artist Residency, Sim Residency, Reykjavik, Iceland, February 1- April 30
Group Exhibition, CSM Next - Covet Art, London, UK - 2021
Artist Residency, Dada Post, Berlin, Germany, July- October 3
Group Exhibition, Saatchi Gallery, Moving Past, Moving Closer, London UK, August- October 9
Group Exhibition, My House is an Island, London, UK, September- October 2020
Group Exhibition, Body Occuptation, Dada Post, Berlin, Germany, September 2020
Exhibition, Thesis Presentation at Central Saint Martins, May 2020
Group Exhibition, Tate Exchange at Tate Modern, “The Space Between” , January 2020
Group Exhibition, Tate Exchange at Tate Modern “Circus”, January 2020
Publication, Schon! Magazine, March 2020
Group Exhibition, Big Space Exhibition, Central Saint Martins, February 2020
Group Exhibition, The Ringling Underground, Ringling Museum, Sarasota, Florida, September 2019
Group Exhibition, Apiary Studios, We Are Here, We Are, London, UK, March 6-9 2019
Group Exhibition, Tate Exchange/ Tate Modern – 2019
Teaching Experience
2021, Visiting Lecturer, MA Transdisziplinarität ZHdk, Zurich, Switzerland, December 2021
2020, Guest Artist Lecture, Dada Post, Berlin, Germany
2020, Guest Artist Lecture, BAPC, San Fransisco Photography Collective
2020, Virtual Guest Artist Lecture, Central Saint Martins, London, UK
2016, Teachers Assistant, Studio lighting, Large Format Photography, and wood workshop, The School of Visual Arts
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