Jason S. Wright
Jason S. Wright, also known as Liver Ideas, lives and works in Richmond, Virginia, USA. Wright’s work is an exploration of the parallels found within the creative practice and spiritual practice. Deeply rooted in the underground traditions of self-publishing and bootleg ideology where it is more fruitful to create your own world rather than assimilating to someone else’s.
The heavily layered paintings are accompanied by fragmented sentences, from pre-existing texts or hand-written in zine-aesthetic fonts, forming new subversive statements like “pose,” “you are not it,” “I see God in Everything” or “I’ve suffered my whole life for you, an’ waddaya do? Ya run away.” Operating like a bootlegger of visual culture,Wright lifts the hijacked images and words out of their original context and, as a strategic détournement, into his own world.A strange, fabulating, sometimes horrifying, yet always surprising, poetic visual vocabulary.
Born 1987 in US
Lives and works in Richmond, VA, US
SELECTED SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2020
Surrender Paintings, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2019
One Day at a Time, Thank You Gallery, Norfolk, VA, US
Tokyo Trip, Supply/Backdoor, Tokyo, Japan
2018
Pay Attention to Your Breath, The Anderson, Richmond, VA, US
The Drawing Room, Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC, US
Printed Matter’s New York Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, New York, US
Heads Magazine #7, Release Exhibition, Charlotte, NC, US
Independent Art Book Fair, Los Angeles, CA, US
JSW for Udli for Supply, Supply/Backdoor, Tokyo, Japan
2017
Printed Matter’s New York Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, New York, NYC, US
Residence Exhibition, Aga Lab, Amsterdam, NL
Udli, Liver’s Night, Nth gallery, Boone, NC, US
Heads Magazine #2 Release Exhibition, Boone, NC, US
2016
Head’s Magazine #1 Release Exhibition, Boone, NC, US
Zapp: Collected Works of. J.S. Wright, Nth Gallery, Boone, NC, US
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
V1 XX - Twenty years of V1 Gallery, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2020
MINE IV, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2019
MINE III, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Mannerism NYC, Procell, New York, NY, US
For My Lovers Only, CFCP, New York, NY, US
Valet, Gallery 5, Richmond, VA, US
2018
Mine II, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, DK
Playing in the Dark, The Andersen, Richmond, VA, US
The Clown Show, Elephant Gallery, Nashville, TN, US
Art Test, Secret Headquarters, Los Angeles, CA, US
Blackeye, Ada Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US
Phantasy Hand, Goodyear Arts, Charlotte, NC, US
While Supplies Last, Gift Shop, Seattle, WA, US
Fort Manchild, de Vlieg, Haarlem, NL
Neighborhood Pop Up, Hester Street, New York, US
Birthday, Good Mother, Oakland, CA, US
Got it for Cheap Worldwide, Traveling Exhibition
2017
S Exhibition, How Space, Boone, NC, US
Interrogation, How Space, Boone, NC, US
Settling the Ghost, Young Space at Standards Projects, WI, US
Less Heady Conversations, Corner Office, Richmond, VA, US
Art and Design Expo, Appalachian State, Boone, NC, US
Fusebox, The Smith Gallery, Boone, NC, US
Call for Submissions, The Turchin Center (curator), Boone, NC, US
2016
Slant, The Smith Gallery, Boone, NC, US
Art of the Book, Looking Glass Gallery, Boone, NC, US
Annual Halloweenth Community Show, Nth Gallery, Boone, NC, US
Chancelor’s Group Exhibition, Appalachian House, Boone, NC, US
Yart Sale Community Show, Nth Gallery, Boone, NC, US
2015
Art and Design Expo, The Smith Gallery, Boone, NC, US
Chancelor’s Group Exhibition, Appalachian House , Boone, NC, US
SELECTED PROJECTS
2019
Miracle Seltzer, continuing project founded by Jason S. Wright and B. Thom Stevenson, New York, US
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2019
RainbowRitual, published by U.D.L.I. Editions
Quite Mornings, published by U.D.L.I. Editions
Head Magazine, published by U.D.L.I. Editions
2017
Tapemind Magazine #3, Tapemind Press, Australia
The Peel Review #9, Appalachian State, Boone
2016
The Peel Review #8, Appalachian State, Boone
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