Molly Wright
A Maze of Milieu
July 23 - August 13, 2010
Reception:
Thursday August 5, 2010 6-8 PM
Press Release
Artist Molly Wright captures a freshness and brilliance that are rarely evoked in modern artworks and which mark out her work as both entirely personal and unique. Adapting her painting style to suit each piece, her brushstrokes vary but most often form bold impressionistic, almost Pointillist marks of pure color. She is most concerned with the interplay of light and color, handling both with an expert eye and a dexterity that lends the work a wonderful luminosity. Using vibrant hues in subtly varied tones, Wright builds both movement and depth through her paintings. The pieces are figurative and heavily influenced by her picturesque surroundings. Many include human figures who act as anchors, grounding the works emotionally and allowing viewers to relate to them directly. In this way, the paintings become personal to the viewer.
Molly Wright currently lives and works in Savannah, GA where she also exhibits twice a year from her studio.
Artist Statement
My work is pretty straightforward. I love color and the play of light. I paint subjects that appeal to me because of the feelings they evoke in me. Sometimes it is their beauty that attracts me, at other times it is the challenge to get the scene I see in my head down on the canvas. I often include figures in my scenes because they give an emotional quality to works that cannot be obtained otherwise. I like the viewer to relate to these people in some way. That makes the piece personal to them as it is to me. I enjoy painting a myriad of subject matter. I think this keeps my work fresh.
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