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Born in Memphis, TN in 1990, Erin Wright received a BFA from the School of The Art Institute of Chicago in 2012 and an M.Arch (Master of Architecture) from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2016. Currently based in Los Angeles and an adjunct professor of architecture at Woodbury University, Wright expands upon the legacy of still life painting with a distinct style that echoes the uncanny precision and waxy surfaces of computer-generated renderings. Citing “indifference” as her guiding principle, the artist wields exacting control over her brush, making sure not to leave behind any noticeable strokes that betray her hand or presence. Wright’s compositions eschew traditional perspective for isometric projection, a method used in architectural drawings to represent three-dimensional objects in two dimensions. The lack of a vanishing point allows the artist to place her subjects non-hierarchically within the picture plane; various motifs, like wine glasses, tennis balls, or bonsai trees, appear iteratively across multiple canvases and lead the viewer’s eye through a carefully choreographed narrative. Each painting is an enigmatic vignette—a single frame of a larger story that highlights the ways in which cultural norms and individual psychological states inform our daily existence, from the most minute details of interior design to universally entrenched social customs. Despite touching on such grand themes, the work remains fluid and familiar enough for the viewer to cultivate their own interpretations of the artist’s striking and layered imagery.
Wright held her first solo exhibition, The Host, The Thief, The Wives, and Their Lovers, at Sow & Tailor (Los Angeles) in 2024. In recent years, she participated in group exhibitions at such galleries as Roberts Projects (Los Angeles), WOAW Gallery (Hong Kong and Singapore), and Field Projects (New York). Nearly Natural, MAKI Gallery (Tokyo, 2025) marks her solo debut in Japan.