Percy Fortini-Wright

Artist Statement

Through a wide array of schemes within representational painting and graffiti vernacular I interpret, depict, and decipher the world around and within me. My art work embodies chaos and clarity balancing polarity.  Creating from memory, direct observation as well as sampling imagery not limiting how my images operate blurring the lines between practices, styles and subjects. Being multiracial my work explores numerous expressions of identity constantly searching for threads of unification. My commitment to multiple painting methods has led me to create a diverse range of artistic arenas, in which these styles combat and peacefully coexist. Using the etheric qualities of spray paint juxtaposed with the physical nature of the calligraphic mark my work investigates spatial relationships of form, subject, line, color, and light My work evokes the spirits of the indigenous warriors of past and present through my subject matter and approach. Like, graffiti, break dancing and rhyming my work ignites immediate adaptability of resources to spark spontaneous expression celebrating the organic nature of a marks movement through space.  .

. For me the term graffiti is merely a term for the compression of all art forms that ever existed past and present into one paradigm, ranging from early stone and cave paintings morphing into language, elaborate murals to what we now call contemporary art. To take it further many of the ancient languages and symbols derive from what we now call sacred geometry which takes on the curvatures of nature’s patterns through movement, geometric proportions, through wave patterns weaving together light and form. Graffiti is one of the only art forms that do not emphasize the content the word, but its proportion and movement through space. I describe through my process and subject matter a new visual physics were the language and tags become the genetic architectural signatures coalescing form and movement.

Resume 

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

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

Teaching Experience

2011 Teen workshop Awkward stage: Adolescence and Identity   Sun Valley Center for the Arts (Ketchum, Idaho)

2010 Visiting Artist in residency workshop and artist seminar   St. Paul's Academy (Concord, NH)

2009_Pre College Adjunct Faculty   Intro to Painting               Art Institute of Boston (Lesley University)

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

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

2007-Art works (muralist)                                                          New Bedford, Ma (Art Works)

Solo Exhibitions

11-11-11 The Awakening                           2011      Lot F Gallery Boston, MA

New Work                                                    2010     The Haley House Boston, MA

Recent Works                                              2007     Art Works New Bedford, MA

New Work                                                    2005     The Haley House Boston, MA

Group Exhibitions

National Figures                                         2011      William Scott Gallery, MA

Summer  Group Show                                2011      Shephard Fine  Artspace, Oak Bluffs Martha's Vinyard, MA

The Sequoia Collaborative                       2011      Piano Factory, Boston, MA      

AIB-Lesley/MFA Alumni show              2011      Hargate Gallery St.Paul's  Academy Concord, NH

AIB-Lesley/MFA Alumni show              2011      Fourthwall Projects Boston, MA

Piece                                                             2010      Lot F gallery Boston, MA

The Connect                                               2010      Lot F gallery Boston, MA

Gene Poole                                                  2010       Piano Factory gallery (curated by Paul Goodnight)

Drawn To It                                                 2010      The New Hampshire Institute of Art Manchester, NH         

Collective Expressions (co-currated)      2009      200 Whales St. Studios Abington, MA.

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

Exotica in Kyoto                                         2009      (A-Forest gallery NYC) 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 exhibit                                     2008      Boston, MA

The Attic                                                      2007      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 mural (Ajani )                    2005      San Francisco, CA

Press

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)

Artist Talk and visual presentation

-Graffiti and the representation 

Roxbury Community College Boston, MA

UMass Lowell Lowell, MA

St.Paul's Academy Concord,NH