"Connor Wright presents Alexa, Truth or Dare? a solo exhibition of new paintings in New York City. With these works, the artist aims to reinterpret an encyclopedic range of images - from the political to the iconic and the lesser-known - with a deeply personal, intuitive visual language. In an age of extreme subjectivity, dopamine loops, and fame cycles shrinking faster than a Warholian prophecy, Wright isn't interested in decoding the chaos so much as metabolizing it."
"Rendered in oil atop spray-painted color fields akin to acid-laced tie-dye, his characters hover between figuration and abstraction, presence and outline. To honor these figures, Wright paints them monumental in scale, yet thin, intentionally exaggerated, elongated, and queered. Their hands stand out as avatars of artistic agency, tenderness, and Wright's ongoing distortion of visual representation. In his eyes, men, nuns, women, and children alike all don the longest of acrylic nails."
Connor Wright's Alexa, Truth or Dare? comprises large-scale paintings on view in Manhattan through January 20, 2026, at 545 West 23rd Street. The works collapse hierarchies by sourcing imagery from personal archives, sports photography, niche internet culture, found objects, and historical documents. Paintings combine oil over spray-painted color fields resembling acid-laced tie-dye, placing figures between figuration and abstraction. Figures are monumental yet thin, exaggerated, elongated, and queered, with emphasized hands as symbols of agency and tenderness. The practice prioritizes metabolizing contemporary image overload—extreme subjectivity, dopamine loops, and rapid fame cycles—by rendering cacophony strange, sensual, and alive.
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