FLUX | Fall 2022: Willie Anne Wright
flux | FALL 2022
September 2 – October 22, 2022
Flux is an ongoing spotlight of works in Candela’s gallery inventory showcasing the breadth of the photographic medium and our love for process. Join us over the course of the next month as we highlight this season’s featured artists: Harrison D Walker, Linda Connor, Alyssa Salomon, and Willie Anne Wright.
WILLIE ANNE WRIGHT
A run of small matted 8x10 gelatin silver prints sits nestled in one of the frontmost corners of the flux gallery, depicting ruins and white-clad figures among Southern landscapes.
Richmond, VA: The Fallen Tree, from the series, Southland, 2005. Gelatin Silver Print, 8 x 10 inches, Framed: 11 x 14 inches. INQUIRE >
These warm monochromatic images, made using a pinhole camera, are the works of artist Willie Anne Wright. Wright has spent the last five decades creating photographs using the pinhole technique, often featuring themes of womanhood, the effects of time, and the American South.
Hanover County, VA: Abandoned House - Exterior, from the series, Southland, 2005. Gelatin Silver Print, 8 x 10 inches, Framed: 11 x 14 inches. INQUIRE >
Greenville County, VA: Ruins with Charred Tree, from the series, Southland, 2005. Gelatin Silver Print, 8 x 10 inches, Framed: 11 x 14 inches. INQUIRE >
Regarding Wright's series, Southland, the artist quotes William Faulkner, who describes the South as "a land where the past is not dead, it isn’t even past." The Southland images primarily record remnants of lives long passed: manmade elements and towering trees collapse and mingle, muddling the past, present, and future in a tangle of debris. The women in white seen in many of Wright's compositions serve as a symbol of loss, a nod to the South's lingering companionship with death.
King William County, VA: Woman in White by an Abandoned House, from the series, Southland, 2005.
Gelatin Silver Print, 8 x 10 inches, Framed: 11 x 14 inches. INQUIRE >
Willie Anne Wright is a native and resident of Richmond, Virginia. She received a BS in Psychology from The College of William and Mary and an MFA in Painting from Virginia Commonwealth University. She also studied photography at Maine Photographic Workshops, Rockport, Maine; Visual Studies Workshops, Rochester, New York; and VCU.
Wright's paintings, serigraphs and drawings were her professional focus until 1972 when pinhole photography became her primary creative medium. Since then her lensless photography — pinhole and photogram — have been exhibited nationally and internationally, and have been included among numerous publications such as Art News, The Oxford American, Le Stenope, and The Book of Alternative Processes.
Wright's works are collected privately and publicly, and are in the permanent collections of Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia; George Eastman House, Rochester, New York; High Museum of Art, Atlanta Georgia; The Mariners' Museum, Newport News, Virginia; Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, Florida; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana; Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama; Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia; New Mexico History Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Longwood University, Farmville, Virginia; University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, Virginia; University of Maine, Bangor, Maine; and University of New Hampshire, Dublin, New Hampshire.
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