"Undeniably, this body of work greets the viewer with the intimacy of a whispered secret and the force of an unexpected confession, a kind of aesthetic breathlessness that lingers in the mind long after the first encounter. In an instant, one realizes they are facing far more than a collection of paintingswhat stands before them is an excavation. Wright cuts through the collective sediment of imagespublic, private, ephemeral, sacredand exposes the psychological bedrock that binds them."
"The scale of his ambition becomes unmistakable in Alexa, Truth or Dare?, curated by Jesse Bandler Firestone and on view December 11 January 2026. Wright's archive is vast: childhood snapshots, sports ephemera, thrift-store slides, bureaucratic documents, internet relics, and images whose origins are lost to the churn of digital culture. This inclusiveness is not chaotic; it is deeply philosophical and undeniably impactful. One turn in his studio leaves the mind pulsing, vibrant, thrilled that at last there is a voice to capture modernity."
Connor Wright's New York debut presents an expansive archive that blends childhood snapshots, sports ephemera, thrift-store slides, bureaucratic documents, and internet relics to reconstruct contemporary experience. The work flattens hierarchies between idolized photographs and overlooked scraps, treating all images as equal evidence of cultural memory. Techniques recall memory-blur and conceptual strategies while employing a fractured visual grammar to expose psychological bedrock. The exhibition Alexa, Truth or Dare? (curated by Jesse Bandler Firestone, December 11–January 2026) frames the project as excavation, using collage and reinterpretation to map social duplicity, memory, and the modern psyche with intense emotional force.
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