Findlay Galleries is proud to announce the opening of an exhibition of works from the 1970s through 1990s by the bay area abstract painter, Jack Wright. The Exhibition opens on Wednesday, September 8, 2021, at Findlay Galleries, New York.

The luminous paintings of Jack Wright evolved from years of contemplation and introspection, during which the artist developed a subtle perception of the natural world, creating his own cosmological map. Wright’s early works recalled the techniques of a neo-impressionist using pointillism, yet his subject matter moved deeper into the unseen worlds of dreams and inner vision. The primal mark he used to create his own worlds––dots––serves to convey an inner light and build an atmospheric field of luminous vision. The dots later evolved to calligraphic strokes, becoming lines. (excerpt from Luminous Visions, Lucid Art Foundation by Fariba Bogzaran)

John “Jack” Cushing Wright’s career as an artist mirrors the growth of American culture that came to prominence after World War II. Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1919, he showed the inclination to be a painter at an early age. he studied with the painter Cameron Booth at the St. Paul School of Art in the late 1930s. After World War II Wright continued his artistic pursuits, which followed with exhibitions at the Walker Art Center and Minneapolis Institute of Art. Then, in 1948 his work was shown at the Betty Parsons Gallery in New York, one of the leading avant-garde galleries of its day. He predominantly lived in California which is where Wright was introduced to a group of painters and sculptors with whom he collaborated with for decades. John Anderson, J.B. Blunk, Richard Bowman, Fritz Rauh, and Lee Mullican, along with Gordon Onslow Ford, would form a veritable “lost school” of California artists. The shared vision and the collaborative efforts of these artists led to a group that made art without boundaries and limitations. As a result, they accomplished some of the most thorough visual research on consciousness from the perspective of visual artists done in the last century. 

Jack Wright had a gift for seeing the world around him. The artist did not separate creation from his everyday life; to him they were one in the same. This resulted in a refined body of work, emanating from an elegant mind that as easily navigated the extraordinary as it did the commonplace. It is easy to focus exclusively on the work of the well known titans of modern art. However, to do so would lead to an incomplete understanding of the century itself. By reviewing the personal revelations of artists like Jack Wright we shed light on the great leaps forward that occur in quiet places and on the unacknowledged advances that fill in the gaps of history and give us the privilege of seeing a larger whole. (excerpt from Luminous Visions, Lucid Art Foundation by Trevor Wilson)

Findlay Galleries has proudly represented Jack Wright since 2006. Findlay Galleries welcomes viewers to attend the first Solo exhibition of Jack Wright’s works at Findlay Galleries. For further information please contact Findlay Galleries, New York.