Painter Ken Wright
ABSTRACT PAINTER KEN WRIGHT has won more than 300 awards, and his work hangs in many private collections. Hes worked out of his studio in the dArt Center in Norfolk, Virginia for 15 years — and B. visited him there to talk about his paintings. Ken is a non-objective, contemporary, non-representational artist, who leaves the viewer to make his own interpretation of the work. He likes to give close-up views of things you might see every day — and has a current interest in what he calls "primitive heritage" work, themes and symbols from African and American folk history. Hes inspired by landscapes, and often titles his work accordingly - but its a landscape filtered through the artists consciousness. The work that has brought Ken the most satisfaction in all his thirty years of painting is the one he did this year — his September 11th piece, which is slated to go to the White House. The work shows a portion of the American flag, and black brushstrokes representing the Twin Towers, and without words or naturalistic representation, it tells the whole story in a deeply moving way. Reproductions of this work will be available, done in the giclČe technique, which uses a computer to spray the paint onto the surface in an exact replica of the original, thus creating truly "affordable art." Contact Ken Wright by telephone: 757-286-1483 or by e-mail at kenwrightart@verizon.net
Ken Wrights studio is at the dArt Center 125 College Place
Norfolk, VA 23510
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