Jamele Wright Sr.

    "WE ARE THE DREAMERS OF DREAMS"

    aRTIST sTATEMENT

    “There comes a time in a person’s life when they would like to be the best and most honest part of themselves. At the age of 32 I began that journey. The butterfly had to emerge. Over these past 20 plus years that has been happening and I have learned to allow it to continue to happen.

     My artistic practice has evolved over time, with some, consistencies. I have always been interested in the found material, ideas of beauty, color relationships and making an object and or the construction of a composition. But the foundation of my practice is the question, the question of what to make, how to make, and what materials do I want to use. What has evolved is what do I want to say. Right now, there is so much talking, so now I am listening. I am listening to the work and allowing it to guide me. Sometimes I may use concepts of painting, sometimes sculpture sometimes both.

     

    At this time, I am not focused on the narrative as much as I am focusing on the relationships of substrate and a medium, I am more concerned with intention. My intention now is to make thought provoking work, to push the limits of the medium through the concepts of abstraction. I am researching African American “Abstractist” that came before me as well landscape artists that not only challenged the viewer but also encouraged their peers. I am excavating the black abstractionist practices, allowing my work to build upon the questions they were asking, so now my work becomes my thesis.“

                   — Jamele Wright, Sr.

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    Born and raised in Ohio, at the age of 22 Jamele Wright, Sr. moved with his family to Atlanta, Georgia. While raising a family Jamele produced art, jazz, and poetry events throughout Atlanta. Realizing that there were many young artists not being represented he started a gallery called Neo-Renaissance Art House. After curating the gallery for over a year Jamele was inspired to pursue his own artistic career. After a number of solo and group exhibitions, Mr. Wright graduated from Georgia State University with a B.A. in Art History. He concentrated on African and African American Contemporary Art. Jamele graduated with Masters of Fine Art from School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, New York. He completed a fellowship at Project for Empty Spaces in Newark, New Jersey.