Shannon Wright

Studio F6

Medium: Sculpture & Installation

Shannon Wright is a sculptor and installation artist based in San José, California. Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Wright grew up chiefly in Sydney, Australia, and then spent her artistically-formative years among the iron trestle bridges and turn-of-the-last-century hydroelectric power plants and foundries of Richmond, Virginia. Wright earned her BFA in Sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University and her MFA in Time Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is a professor and the coordinator of the Spatial Art program at San Jose State University. Wright is represented by ADA Gallery in Richmond, Virginia.

Wright’s recent work reacts to the imposition of rigid structure onto natural systems in order to eliminate ambiguity and unpredictability. Several of Wright’s projects are a response to the modernist prioritization of pure economic utility, which has led to the emergence of non-places or atopias disconnected from geography and history. In recent years, Wright has built structures that suggest hybrids of street furniture, playground equipment, and other modular, mass-produced industrial objects. Wright has a longstanding fascination with modular systems and articulated connections. 

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