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Gagosian is pleased to announce an exhibition by Richard Wright featuring painted objects, works on paper, books, and painting executed on the gallery interior.
Wright is known for large-scale and site-specific—but often temporary—painted and applied metal-leaf installations and leaded window works that invest architectural spaces with new optical and associative complexity. Shifting between illusionism and abstraction, his projects alter the viewer’s perception of space. Incorporating graphic and ornamental elements, they allude to Minimalism and Renaissance art, as well as to commercial image making. In his stylistically diverse works on paper, Wright employs ink drawing, gilding, printmaking, enamel, and watercolor painting techniques.
A new site-specific painting at the Davies Street gallery incorporates the surfaces of an internal door, Wright once again disrupting the traditionally static relationship between artwork and viewer by drawing attention to an architectural feature that, while habitually considered purely functional, maintains a rich symbolic history. In mythology, religion, and literature, doors suggest the transition from one world to another; in psychology and psychoanalysis, they represent choices and decisions. Painting on a large twentieth-century wood solicitor’s deeds cabinet, Wright recasts the still-functional piece as a vessel of abstract visuality. The gridded design, characteristic of his most recent work, suggests patchwork quilts or tiled walls, while also evoking the dizzying retinal effects of Op art.
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In Conversation
Richard Wright and Martin Clark
Richard Wright and Martin Clark, director of Camden Art Centre, London, discuss Wright’s latest body of work, recent commissions, and new monograph, which provides a comprehensive overview of his practice between 2010 and 2020.
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In an excerpt from his forthcoming monograph, Richard Wright pens a personal and philosophical text about painting.
Behind the Art
Richard Wright
In an interview with Kay Pallister, the artist explains his relationship to drawing and the importance of time in his site-specific works.
Now available
Gagosian Quarterly Summer 2019
The Summer 2019 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available, featuring a detail from Afrylic by Ellen Gallagher on its cover.
Richard Wright
Louise Neri discusses the artist’s new exploration of glass works.
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Talk and Book Signing
Richard Wright
Martin Clark
Wednesday, April 12, 2023, 7pm
Burlington Arcade, London
Join Gagosian for a conversation between Richard Wright and Martin Clark, director of Camden Art Centre, London, to coincide with the artist’s solo exhibition at Gagosian, Davies Street, London. They will discuss Wright’s latest body of work, recent commissions, and new monograph, which provides a comprehensive overview of his practice between 2010 and 2020. Published by Gagosian, the book documents projects made for well-known public spaces and private residences around the world, and includes essays by Wright, Clark, and social anthropologist Tim Ingold as well as an in-depth conversation between the artist and Will Bradley, director of Kunsthall Oslo. After the talk, Wright will sign copies of the book, which will be available for purchase.
Richard Wright (New York: Gagosian, 2023)