Artist: Percy Fortini-Wright

Year Completed: 2022

Medium: Oil and spray paint on gallery wrapped canvas

Dimensions in Inches (HxWxD): 48x72"

Shipping from: US

About the Artist:

Acclaimed for his work in a variety of media, Percy Fortini-Wright's style inhabits the space between abstraction expressionism and graffiti art. To create these new works, Percy vigorously applies a combination of spray paint and oil paint in a rather loose and rhythmic motion. In doing so, he gradually builds up a surface, creating an asymmetrical composition depicting an infinite network of lines and forms. Throughout his process he continues to destroy that of his original plan of seeking to find the balance between chaos and order, resulting in an abstract radial work of art that evokes the forces of a greater energy.

Percy believes that all human beings have a creative spirit, therefore making the official start to his artistic career undefined. He states that with being surrounded by artists and musicians throughout his childhood, it is hard to distinguish a specific time when he began his journey, especially if time is infinite. It wasn't until his adolescent years when he first became introduce to the art of graffiti by one of his closest childhood friends. What started as a creative outlet soon became a successful career as Percy's works became actively in demand by both private and public collectors following his showcase at the Boston Center of Arts in 2003. His form of artistry continues to effortlessly blur the lines between classical painting and graffiti art. However, he does not consider himself a graffiti or street artist but rather identifies as a technician of letters, articulating self-expression through the parameters of letters on various surfaces.

The main inspiration behind Percy's body of work has been continuously sourced from music, rhythm, rhyme, all with a mystical touch. He states that when discussing the musical genre of hip hop, the rhyming in particular is one of the most complex, rawest forms of expression that has ever existed from his perspective. He relates his process to that of a patchwork of elusive hard to find samples, flying, colliding, and flowing through space and time through rhyme.

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