Tad Lauritzen Wright

b. 1972, San Angelo, TX
I take basic ideas, simple plans, and rigorous daydreaming to an extreme in the work, always attempting to elevate my ideas and observations.
Warning
Warning

Experiments with process and possibility form the basis of Tad Lauritzen Wright’s practice, as they have for the past several decades. He employs consistent motifs and symbols along with a sprawling variety of treatments in paintings, works on paper and sculptural installations. Oscillating between improvisation and control, he mixes graphic geometry and patterning with heavy brushwork, hand-lettered text, personified objects, childlike imagery, shocking colors, and fantastic scale and perspectives. Enmeshing himself and the viewer in playful sensory games, joy and possibility arise from each composition. Wright’s grid foundations become spaces for collaboration among forms and operate as analytic puzzles. His one-line drawings are elaborate time-based games growing from simplicity to complexity, open to risk and the challenge of limits. His use of text and language as form allow for direct accessibility and a range of interpretations from the viewer -- whether delight or disgust. Through the process of blurring and defying conventions of art and craft, roles of the artist and viewer, and traditional uses of media and form, Wright remixes a whole new visual language.

Tad Lauritzen Wright, a Texan, received an MFA from Memphis College of Art and a BFA from Nebraska Wesleyan University. Over the past twenty years, he has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions across the United States, including Coop Gallery, Nashville; Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville; Anderson O’Brien Fine Art, Omaha; Koelsch Gallery, Houston; Cheryl Hazen Gallery, New York; Cuevas Tilleard Gallery, New York; ACME Gallery, Los Angeles; Millsaps College, Jackson; Arkansas State University, Jonesboro; Pulse Art Fair, Miami; Next Art Fair, Chicago; Brooks Museum, Memphis; Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis; and the New Orleans Museum of Art. He has completed two (?) public installations through the Urban Art Commission in Memphis. His work is in a number of collections including the Tamarind Printmaking Institute, Albuquerque; Fidelity Investments, Boston; The Children's Museum, Memphis; the City of Memphis; Hallmark Collection, Kansas City, MO; Memphis/Shelby County Library and Information Center-Collierville; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art; and the Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock. He is one half of the Mellow Mountain Coalition, making collaborative, impromptu, figurative abstractions with fellow DLG artist Hamlett Dobbins.

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Warning
Warning
Orange Sunshine
Orange Sunshine
After Tomorrow
After Tomorrow
Bloom
Bloom
Repeating it Perfectly (Undone) Again 20
Repeating it Perfectly (Undone) Again 20
Repeating It Perfectly (Undone) Again 19
Repeating It Perfectly (Undone) Again 19
All In
All In
Garden Full of Memories
Garden Full of Memories
Repeating It Perfectly (Undone ) Again 17
Repeating It Perfectly (Undone ) Again 17
Repeating It Perfectly (Undone) Again 16
Repeating It Perfectly (Undone) Again 16
Recontextualized Loose Ends (Aluminum 1)
Recontextualized Loose Ends (Aluminum 1)
Recontextualized Loose Ends (Aluminum 2)
Recontextualized Loose Ends (Aluminum 2)
Recontextualized Loose Ends (Aluminum 3)
Recontextualized Loose Ends (Aluminum 3)
Recontextualized Loose Ends (Aluminum 4)
Recontextualized Loose Ends (Aluminum 4)
Recontextualized Loose Ends (white)
Recontextualized Loose Ends (white)
Recontextualized Loose Ends (grey)
Recontextualized Loose Ends (grey)
Repeating it Perfectly (Undone) Again 15
Repeating it Perfectly (Undone) Again 15
Repeating It Perfectly (Undone) Again 14
Repeating It Perfectly (Undone) Again 14
Repeating it Perfectly (Undone) Again 12
Repeating it Perfectly (Undone) Again 12
Victor H.
Victor H.
Not Taking Sides
Not Taking Sides
Perceived, Remembered, Imagined, Distorted and Clarified
Perceived, Remembered, Imagined, Distorted and Clarified
TAD LAURITZEN WRIGHT: Perceived, Remembered, Imagined, Distorted and Clarified
TAD LAURITZEN WRIGHT: Perceived, Remembered, Imagined, Distorted and Clarified
Warning
Warning
mixed media on canvas, 60x48
2023
Orange Sunshine
Orange Sunshine
mixed media on canvas, 82x110
2023
After Tomorrow
After Tomorrow
mixed media on canvas, 62.5x46.6
2023
Bloom
Bloom
mixed media on canvas, 72x109
2022
Repeating it Perfectly (Undone) Again 20
Repeating it Perfectly (Undone) Again 20
mixed media on paper, 30x22
2023
Repeating It Perfectly (Undone) Again 19
Repeating It Perfectly (Undone) Again 19
mixed media on canvas, 72z109
2023
All In
All In
mixed media on canvas, 72x98
2022
Garden Full of Memories
Garden Full of Memories
mixed media on canvas drop cloth, 72x108
2022
Repeating It Perfectly (Undone ) Again 17
Repeating It Perfectly (Undone ) Again 17
mixed media on canvas, 72x109
2022
Repeating It Perfectly (Undone) Again 16
Repeating It Perfectly (Undone) Again 16
acrylic on linen with embroidered edge, 21x62
2022
Recontextualized Loose Ends (Aluminum 1)
Recontextualized Loose Ends (Aluminum 1)
aluminum, 8x9x12
2022
Recontextualized Loose Ends (Aluminum 2)
Recontextualized Loose Ends (Aluminum 2)
aluminum, 19x32x11
Recontextualized Loose Ends (Aluminum 3)
Recontextualized Loose Ends (Aluminum 3)
aluminum, 16x14.5x14
2022
Recontextualized Loose Ends (Aluminum 4)
Recontextualized Loose Ends (Aluminum 4)
aluminum, 13x22x12.5
2022
Recontextualized Loose Ends (white)
Recontextualized Loose Ends (white)
enamel on aluminum, 12x14x14
2021
Recontextualized Loose Ends (grey)
Recontextualized Loose Ends (grey)
enamel on aluminum, 12x12x9.5
2021
Repeating it Perfectly (Undone) Again 15
Repeating it Perfectly (Undone) Again 15
mixed media on stitch canvas, 60x48
2022
Repeating It Perfectly (Undone) Again 14
Repeating It Perfectly (Undone) Again 14
acrylic on drop-cloth, 36.25x30.25
2022
Repeating it Perfectly (Undone) Again 12
Repeating it Perfectly (Undone) Again 12
acrykic on canvas, 60x48
2022
Victor H.
Victor H.
oil and wax on canvas, 40x30
2022
Not Taking Sides
Not Taking Sides
mixed media on canvas, 36x48
2021
Perceived, Remembered, Imagined, Distorted and Clarified
Perceived, Remembered, Imagined, Distorted and Clarified
acrylic, ceramic and cinder block, 9.75x9x9
2019
TAD LAURITZEN WRIGHT: Perceived, Remembered, Imagined, Distorted and Clarified
TAD LAURITZEN WRIGHT: Perceived, Remembered, Imagined, Distorted and Clarified
acrylic, ceramic and cinder block, 13x6x6
2019

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