Jamele Wright, Sr., born and raised in Ohio, moved at age 22 to Atlanta, where he began his artistic career at the intersection of jazz music, poetry, and visual arts. While his works emit presence, they also evoke feelings of warmth, body, and landscape. Inspired by the work of abstract-expressionist painter Al Loving, who is best known for his artworks which meticulously balanced shape and form, Wright continues Loving’s tradition and legacy while providing new perspectives on the use of color.
When creating the body of work on exhibit titled BROWN, the artist was inspired by the notion of brown artwork and paintings being unpopular or undesired. In breaking the color down into reds, oranges, yellows, blues, and greens, Wright rethinks color association and hue. He has placed his body of work in the conversation with classical depictions of landscapes from the Hudson River School to the visual world of film Technicolor in the early- to mid-20th century.
His exhibition Hues of Skin and Earth offers an immersive and imaginative experience bringing about memories, feelings, and experiences interconnected with color, shape, and form.
Wright is the awardee of the AMA’s inaugural open-call search for Georgia-based artists for a solo exhibition. The jury selected his work out of the nearly two dozen submissions.
