Glimmer Tricia Wright
Originally from England and educated in London, Tricia Wright moved permanently to the US in 1999. She operates a full-time art studio in North Stamford, CT, and lives part of the year in Ireland. Her works are held in museum, corporate, government, and private collections in the US, UK, and Europe. Recent achievements include her solo exhibition, Tricia Wright:The Naturalist, Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, and her MTA Arts & Design Public Art Commission, permanent installations in glass and metal, Crestwood Railway Station, New York, completed in 2020. In 2019, she was a Workspace Artist in Residence at Dieu Donne, Brooklyn
All works in this catalogue are © 2024 Tricia Wright
We are delighted to be presenting a group of handmade works on paper, paintings and prints by Tricia Wright. Like so much of the work we represent at the barn, Wright’s works address the artist’s association with nature. Fortunate enough to live with bountiful gardens, her work reflects the daily gifts we receive from a less mechanized environment. Similar to seeing a flower buzzed by a bee, a frog resting in a pond, or the first snow drops in winter beckoning spring, Wright’s work reminds us to contemplate the bountiful life we share with so many beautiful living things.
These artworks reflect on our relationship to the natural world, and explore ideas about intimacy, time, and the self. Poetry informs and inspires the work, most notably texts by Seamus Heaney, T.S. Eliot, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Salvador Rueda. Some artworks incorporate words in tandem with the imagery, expanding their meaning and inviting a contemplative experience. This exhibition presents a recent body of works in handmade paper produced at Dieu Donné in Brooklyn’s Navy Yard, together with a group of paintings on linen exploring related content. The handmade paper process begins and ends with the hand, starting out as line drawings of my own hand and other living organisms, from which I generate custom 3-D printed forms. These are used to emboss handmade papers pigmented in cream, blue, mushroom, green, and pink. I further manipulate the surface of the paper by hand, intensifying definition and expression, before gilding the embossed areas with gold leaf in hues ranging from 12 to 24 karats. Tricia Wright, 2024
The exhibition, Tricia Wright: Glimmer opens on December 5th and will run to January 10th. We hope you will get time to visit this beautiful exhibition during the busy holiday season.
Lily and David, 2024
Time and the Bell (here, I am), 2024 Handmade paper embossed with custom-printed 3D forms, 23 karat red gold leaf: 25 1/4 x 21 1/4 inches (framed dimensions)
Time and the Bell (I grow old), 2024
Handmade paper embossed with custom-printed 3D forms, 23 karat red gold leaf: 25 1/4 x 21 1/4 inches (framed dimensions)
Time and the Bell (now, or now), 2024
Handmade paper embossed with custom-printed 3D forms, 23 karat red gold leaf: 25 1/4 x 21 1/4 inches (framed dimensions)
Small Matters (hand and flower), 2024
Handmade paper embossed with custom-printed 3D forms, 23 karat red gold leaf: 25 1/4 x 21 1/4 inches (framed dimensions)
Small Matters (hand and snail), 2024
Handmade paper embossed with custom-printed 3D forms, 12 karat gold leaf: 25 1/4 x 21 1/4 inches (framed dimensions)
Small Matters (hand and bird), 2024
Handmade paper embossed with custom-printed 3D forms, 12 karat gold leaf:
25 1/4 x 21 1/4 inches (framed dimensions)
The Naturalist (The Pond), 2024
Handmade paper embossed with custom-printed 3D forms, 12 karat gold leaf:
50 1/4 x 41 1/4 inches (framed dimensions)
The Naturalist (The Woods), 2024 Handmade paper embossed with custom-printed 3D forms, 22 karat gold leaf:
50 1/4 x 41 1/4 (framed dimensions)
The Naturalist (The Woods), 2024 Handmade paper embossed with custom-printed 3D forms, 22 karat gold leaf:
50 1/4 x 41 1/4 inches (framed dimensions)
Concord (singing bird and olive branch), 2024
Handmade paper embossed with custom-printed 3D forms, 23 karat red gold leaf: 15 3/4 x 18 1/2 inches (framed dimensions)
Discord (birds fighting), 2024
Handmade paper embossed with custom-printed 3D forms, 12 karat gold leaf: 15 3/4 x 18 1/2 inches (framed dimensions)
Victory (snowdrop and laurel wreath), 2024
Handmade paper embossed with custom-printed 3D forms, 22 karat gold leaf: 15 3/4 x 18 1/2 inches (framed dimensions)
Pyrrhic Victory (chipmunks fighting and tattered laurel wreath), 2024
Handmade paper embossed with custom-printed 3D forms, 12 karat gold leaf: 15 3/4 x 18 1/2 inches (framed dimensions)
Paintings
Flowers are a Beautiful Mathematics; Fibonacci Echinacea with Monarch Butterflies, 2023
Acrylic on linen mounted on cradled wood panel, 36 x 36 inches
Flowers are a Beautiful Mathematics; Fibonacci Echinacea with Peacock Butterflies, 2023
Acrylic on linen mounted on cradled wood panel, 36 x 36 inches
Estuary Ghosts; Little Egret with Data Chart, 2023
Acrylic on linen mounted on cradled wood panel, 24 x 24 inches
Estuary Ghosts; Blue Heron with Data Chart, 2023
Acrylic on linen mounted on cradled wood panel, 20 x 20 inches
Estuary Ghosts; Curlew with Data Chart, 2023
Acrylic on linen mounted on cradled wood panel, 20 x 20 inches
Estuary Ghosts; Swan with Data Chart, 2023
Acrylic on linen mounted on cradled wood panel, 20 x 20 inches
Prints
The Perennial Village; Morning Glory, 2024
Artwork design for MTA Arts & Design Public Art Commission at Crestwood Railway Station, NY
Signed and numbered limited-edition archival pigmented inkjet print on museum-grade paper 22 x 34 inches (image size)
The Perennial Village; Evening Primrose, 2024
Artwork design for MTA Arts & Design Public Art Commission at Crestwood Railway Station, NY
Signed and numbered limited-edition archival pigmented inkjet print on museum-grade paper 22 x 34 inches (image size)
Hand with Flower, 2024
Signed and numbered limited-edition archival pigmented inkjet print on museum-grade paper 32 x 24 inches (image size)
