F2-B:Jesse Wright

Future Fair

Jesse Wright is an interdisciplinary artist based in Newark, New Jersey. He received his BA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City and Middlesex Polytechnic in England. Wright’s visual approach references his blended Jamaican-American heritage creating a language that addresses his ongoing allegory on displacement, migration, and scripture.

Wright’s on-going series, Reverie, which began in 2018 forge visual circuits between historical narratives and present-day experiences. Images created from his time in Jamaica are bridged with his American life resulting in works rich in texture – layered in symbolism and meaning. Shifting from collage to geometrical patterns, to painterly gestures, Wright uses his maternal relatives as archetypes of migration. Hope, aspiration, strength, and longing are all depicted giving attention to the complexity of humanity.