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** For all professional inquiries, please see the email form on my website www.jimmywrightartist.com **Artist Jimmy Wright's large-scale oil paintings and pastel works of flowers reimagine the subject's meaning. On the occasion of "Flowers at the Fin de Siècle," at Wonnerth Dejaco Gallery, Vienna, Austria, curator Ashton Cooper said, "If floral paintings have traditionally been seen as frivolous and lacking conceptual heft, these practices prove that the decorative is not without concept and that pleasure does not exclude intellect." Flowers for Ken, a recent show held at New York's Fierman Gallery, displayed two such examples of Wright's monumental works, which are six feet by six feet and were painted as a memento mori for his departed lover, Ken Nuzzo, who died of HIV / AIDS. Writing for Artforum, Johanna Fateman said, "This tiny show of big paintings—there were only two, not counting the voluptuous impasto still lifes in the office—was quietly overwhelming, its contrasting scales recalling an engulfing grief." Soon after their completion, the paintings debuted at a 1992 Midtown Payson Gallery show curated by Robert Kushner, and today, one resides in the permanent collection of the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky. Wright, a Kentucky native born in 1944, has been a New York-based artist since 1974. His large Bowery studio is home to five decades worth of work, of which the most prominent is a series of billowing floral paintings and drawings that chart his engagement with the subculture of gay life on the Lower East Side before the HIV / AIDS epidemic. Wright's work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, and other public institutions. Recent press includes articles in The New Yorker, Artforum, The Gay & Lesbian Review, Candy Transversal 13, Acne Paper Issue 17, and Sap Magazine Issue 4.In May 2024, Southern Illinois University Carbondale bestowed an honorary Doctor of Arts degree for C. James “Jimmy” Wright, an internationally known painter and pastel artist.

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