Bing Wright, "Broken Mirror/Evening Sky (Ektachrome)"

Description

Bing Wright, "Broken Mirror/Evening Sky (Ektachrome)" 
25 x 32.5 inches
Archival inkjet print

Artist Bio: Working largely in photography, Bing Wright (b. 1958, Seattle, WA) combines digital technology and traditional collage to examine the physical limits of image production. The artist embeds motifs such as the strip of the frame, fragmented glass, and silver leaf in his layered and re-photographed images, engaging in form and concept with depth of field, scale, surface and materiality. Wright’s work has been shown in exhibitions at the New Museum, White Columns, and the Queens Museum of Art, New York; and the Tang Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs; among others. His work is in several public collections, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Portland Art Museum; the Seattle Art Museum; Goldman Sachs; JP Morgan Chase Bank; and Citigroup. He lives and works in New York City.

Artist Statement: The images are meticulously constructed through a blend of traditional documentary landscape photography and subtle studio manipulation. Wright photographs sunsets, then projects these images onto small, broken mirrors—each just 14 by 11 inches. He re-photographs the fractured reflections and enlarges them into large-scale prints.

This striking series continues Wright’s exploration of abstraction and representation—a tension he masterfully balances by grounding these splintered images within bold compositional structures. Though more abstract than his earlier works, the pieces retain a quiet narrative, inviting viewers to collectively share in the beauty of the captured sunsets while allowing for deeply personal interpretations of their emotional resonance.

The resulting images are both pictorial and fragmented—a meditation on imperfection, reminding us that everything beautiful bears the mark of its own disrepair.