In the Studio: Averia Wright

Bahamian artist Averia Wright will be in conversation with Marina Reyes Franco, Curator at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico (MAC PR). This program will be held in conjunction with our current exhibition, Tropical Is Political: Caribbean Art Under the Visitor Economy Regime. The artist will discuss her work in the exhibition as it relates to her artistic practice.

Join us live on Instagram from your cell phone, or watch on YouTube after, for a series of remote visits to artists' studios to bring Americas Society's Visual Arts public programs to your home. Check out the series playlist.

About the artist

Averia Wright is an interdisciplinary artist known for her sculpture and ceramic artworks. Wright graduated from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, with a master's in Fine Art in Sculpture and Expanded Practice in May 2018 and BFA with a concentration in Ceramics from the University of Tampa, Florida in May 2009. Inspired by folklore and Bahamian history, Wright's previous sculptures draw from tribal imagery and organic forms. Familiar forms resemble local flora and fauna, deep-sea creatures, and dancing bodies, but they do not fully reveal themselves; always becoming but never being. Wright's current practice delves into a criticism of the geopolitical nature of The Bahamas and other countries in the region by using her upbringing through the straw market industry

About the guest speaker

Marina Reyes Franco is a Curator at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico (MAC). In 2010, she co-founded La Ene, an itinerant museum and collection. Recent projects include El momento del yagrumo and La llave / la clave, at MAC, San Juan; De Loiza a la Loiza, a MAC en el Barrio public art commission by Daniel Lind Ramos; Resisting Paradise, at Publica, San Juan and Fonderie Darling, Montreal; Watch your step / Mind your head, ifa-Galerie Berlin; The 2nd Grand Tropical Biennial in Loiza, Puerto Rico; Sucursal, MALBA in Buenos Aires, and numerous exhibitions at La Ene.

Visit the Americas Society Visual Arts YouTube Channel for recordings of In the Studio Series and other previous events.

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More digital content from Visual Arts at Americas Society:

• Check out the current exhibition Tropical Is Political: Caribbean Art Under the Visitor Economy Regime.
• Check out the current iteration of our Flag Series: nibia pastrana santiago – YOUR ISLAND HERE.
• Read about the previous exhibition Geles Cabrera: Museo Escultórico.
• Read the exhibition catalogue for This Must Be the Place: Latin American Artists in New York, 1965–1975.
• Watch videos of recent events:
  • Geles Cabrera: Museo Escultórico
  • Young Filmmakers in New York: Collective Visions Screening
  • This Must Be The Place: An Oral History Book Launch
  • This Must Be the Place: Latin American Artists in New York, 1965–1975
  • Terence Gower: The Good Neighbor