About
Artist Biography
Scott Wright
“The latest painting…reminds us both of our aspiration to soar and the metaphoric
consequences of seeing things from above.
Tragic and beautiful is the bird’s-eye view.”
Stanley I Grand, Executive Director, Lancaster Museum of Art, from Skybound, Scott Wright Paintings and Works on Paper.
Scott Wright’s enigmatic paintings reflect the precarious relationship of humans and nature in a give-and-take of energy and entropy. At times these patterns are viewed from hundreds or thousands of feet in the air and other times they take on land based dream-like narratives.
Wright was born in Hartford, CT. He received an MFA from PennDesign in Philadelphia, and a BFA from Purchase College, SUNY. His work has embraced realist, abstract, and narrative modes of painting.
In 2001 he received the Hazel Award for Painters from the Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial and The Philadelphia Museum of Art. Feature articles about his art have appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The New York Times.
His work has been exhibited nationally an internationally in gallery and museum shows including; The Bronx-Art-Spcae, Bronx, NY; The State Museum Harrisburg, PA; The Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington DE; The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown OH; and The University of Edinburgh, Scotland. In 2009 the Lancaster Museum of Art featured Wright’s paintings and works on paper in a mid career retrospective. A 64-page full color catalog was published in conjunction with this exhibition.
Wright has taught studio painting, drawing and photography at Temple University, Tyler School of Art, Purchase College, SUNY, and Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA.
He currently lives in eastern PA with his wife and son. His studio is located in a restored Nineteenth Century factory building.