Erin Wright
Region: Pacific Coast
The recent work rearranges architectural features and facades
to build playful and clever mise-en-scènes that exist around
the everyday landscape. The pieces exist as a sort of paper
architecture. Painting and sculpture are the arms and legs of
the practice. The paintings mimic the machine-made quality of
an architectural rendering through the isometric position and
applied textures. In the paintings, the absence of scale renders
the architecture as miniature or toylike figures. In the models,
that playful quality is achieved through materiality. The models
are made through the construction of found objects: plastic,
tools, paper, toys, etc. The works challenge the often sober
visual code that exists in architecture by exploring the surreal
through materiality and composition.