Percy 14e-Wright

                                            Bio-

Percy Fortini-Wright comes from a long line of artists in his family, ranging from oil painters, watercolorists, and calligraphy artists. Around age 4, Percy could be found virtually anywhere with a pen in his hand, constantly drawing and developing his ideas despite his young age. Percy's early subject matter consisted of many different artistic explorations, which included landscapes containing animals, cartoons, and inventing creative new variations of the English Alphabet. As Percy continued to refine his style of painting throughout his school years leading up to college and Graduate school, it became clear to him that pursuing a career as an artist was inevitable.  

       Some of the things that fuel Percy's creativity include music, science, nature, and the nuances of everyday life defining human culture. Using the techniques he has perfected throughout the years, Percy now specializes in nature scenes, street art, murals, portraits, lettering and landscapes and traditional figurative oil paintings.  Percy is also heavily inspired by the graffiti movement throughout the world, both past and present, and is reflected in his artwork.

                                              Statement                                                

Through the juxtaposition of tropes within representational painting and contemporary graffiti vernacular I describe form and shape. I construct my work from  both memory,  and direct observation sampling existing imagery not limiting how my images operate blurring the lines between collage, abstraction,  and straight representational painting. My work investigates my own spacial perceptions of form, line, color, and light through the physical density of paint. Using the etheric qualities of  spray paint  mixed with the  physicality of different paints I create both a physical and optical illusion of space and form, while the expressive nature of the calligraphic mark reveals the time,speed, and charge of the piece. 

  My commitment to multiple painting styles orchestrating the relationships between public and private and those between representational painting and street art vernacular has led me to create a diverse range of artistic arenas, in which these styles combat and or peacefully coexist.

M.F.A. 2006    2008   Master of Fine Arts in Visual ArtsArt Institute of Boston (Lesley University)

B.F.A   2000    2004    Fine arts           Art Institute of Boston (Lesley University)

Teaching Experience

2009 Pre College Adjunct Faculty   Intro to Painting 

2009 Pre College Adjunct Faculty  Figure Drawing  Art Institute of Boston (Lesley University)

2007-08 Pre College Adjunct  Faculty Mural Painting            Art Institute of Boston (Lesley University)

2007 New Bedford Waterfront mural                                       New Bedford, Ma (Art Works)

Solo Exhibitions

Artworks                                                     2007    New Bedford, Ma

The Haley House                                       2005     Boston, Ma

Group Exhibitions

Larger than Life                                         2009      Hargate Gallery St.Pauls School  Concord, NH

Exotica in Kyoto                                        2009      Ishida Taiseisha Hall  Kyoto, Japan

First People of the North East Exhibit    2009      Mills Brook gallery Concord, NH

Sowa Artwalk                                             2009      Boston, Ma

200 Whales St. Studios (co-curated)      2009      Abington, Ma

MFA thesis show                                      2008      Boston, Ma

The Attic                                                     2008      Cambridge, Ma

7th annual 3rd eye open                           2006      New Bedford, Ma

Legends of style 4(Future Classic)         2006      Boston Center of Arts

Legends of style 3 (Future Classic)        2005      Boston Convention & Exhibition Center

Legends of style 2(Future Classic)         2005      Artist for Humanity  Boston, Ma

Legends of style 1(Future Classic)         2004      New York, NY

Commissions   

Haus auto design (series of rappers)      2009      Allston, Ma

New Bedford Waterfront mural                2007-08 New Bedford, Ma

Sgt William H. Carney mural                     2007      Carney Academy,   New Bedford, Ma

Planets (Victor Rosario)                             2007      Fajardo, Puerto Rico

Love Supreme (Ajani )                               2005    San Francisco, Ca       

Bibliography

Oct 8,2009                  Victoria Shouldis   "Larger than Life" Mixed heritage, mixed media Concord MonitorConcord, NH

July 20, 2009               Victoria Shouldis "First people Exhibit of Native American" Concord Monitor (Concord, NH)

December 09, 2007     Jennifer Lade.  "Mural dedicated at Leonard's Wharf "Standard-Times (New Bedford, Ma)