Emily Rose Wright

Born 1999 in Seattle, WA

Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

Born 1999 in Seattle and today based in Brooklyn, Emily Rose Wright earned her BFA in painting with a concentration in computation, technology, and culture from RISD in 2022, and has participated in recent shows throughout Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Wright's work consists of dour, largely monochromatic and hauntingly evocative vignettes. Incorporating a range of media and utilizing both printed and pliable material together in a given piece, most artworks bear a strong impression of the procedural and textural accumulation from which they are composed. Bearing readily the imprinted residue of ink on textured substrates, these works abound with entropic patterning. Wright artfully balances the inherent tendencies of her materials and her intentions, crafting moments of representational figuration that sit amongst layers of abstraction, giving the ultimately inconclusive suggestion of wholly expansive forms.

Exhibitions

Floating Weeds

Feb 19 - Feb 23, 2025

An Average Comet

July 20 - Aug 31, 2024

Works on Paper on Fridges

Aug 12 - Sept 6, 2022

Selected Works

Education

2022
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

Exhibitions

2024
Harkawik, New York, NY
2022
Harkawik, New York, NY
Mega Storage
Memorial Hall Gallery, Providence, RI
Painting Senior Show
Woods-Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI
2021
Tangents
Memorial Hall Gallery, Providence, RI
2020
Tiny
Joukowsky Institute, Providence, RI
BFA Show
Serving The People (Online Exhibition)
For Your Parents
62 John, Providence, RI
2019
Painting Triennial
Woods-Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI
Projection as Visual Practice
Fleet Library, Providence, RI
2018
Emerging Artists
CVPA Campus Gallery, Dartmouth, MA
Through Young Eyes
Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
Defining, Designing, Discovering
VanDernoot Gallery, Cambridge, MA

Awards

2018
Cape Cod & Islands Art Educators Association Scholarship Award
Champlain College Writers’ Conference
Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod, PPSCC Scholarship Award

Publications

2019
v.1, Negative Spaces
(volume-1.org)