Department of Art & Art History Assis. Prof. Jaclyn Wright just returned from her international exhibition opening at Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam in the Netherlands (funded, in part, by a “Research-in-Progress” grant from the CFA). Wright was selected as one of twenty artists for the Foam Talent 2024-25. This year’s exhibition features a remarkably diverse pool of talent from 106 countries. The 2,480 submissions, which include 4,960 projects and 47,054 images, showcase a broad spectrum of artistic focus and creative ingenuity. Wright’s work will also be featured in this month’s Foam Magazine #65.
She also just published the book, “High Visibility (Blaze Orange)” which combines original images, performance, archival photographs and maps to show the impact of late capitalism and settler colonisation on the landscapes of the Western United States. Focusing on Utah’s West Desert, Jaclyn Wright’s work aims to illustrate the struggle between the natural world and its codification by bureaucrats, the visible and invisible and the ironies of fantasies of freedom and nativism on stolen land. She’ll be speaking about the book and the work within on 4/4 from 4-5pm in MLIB 2751 in the ProtoSpace at J. Willard Marriott Library. This event is free and open to all.