Walled Garden
 
This series is predicated on fragmentation and separation, it considers ways in which women tend to be perceived in parts, not as a whole. Historically the walled garden in art denotes a space set apart, specifically a feminine space. My process utilizes found imagery sourced from the ancient world to the 21st century, combined with painting and photography to weave a pictorial space that is neither purely one nor the other. The technical history is not readily visible on the painted surface; like the unreliable narrator the surface is ambiguous, inviting questions on the veracity of the constructed image. 
 

Walled Garden
Tricia Wright Walled Garden
Studio installation
Each canvas: 40 x 50 inches
Tricia Wright Walled Garden  Acrylic paint, sprayed acrylic, pigmented inkjet on canvas
Walled Garden; Eyes (St Lucy, Francesco del Cossa, c. 1473/1474)
Acrylic paint, sprayed acrylic, pigmented inkjet on canvas
40 x 50 inches, 2017

Tricia Wright Walled Garden  Acrylic paint, sprayed acrylic, pigmented inkjet on canvas
Walled Garden; Breasts (St Agatha, Francisco de Zurbarán 1630-33)
Acrylic paint, sprayed acrylic, pigmented inkjet on canvas
40 x 50 inches, 2017
Tricia Wright Walled Garden  Acrylic paint, sprayed acrylic, pigmented inkjet on canvas
Walled Garden; Foot (Seascape Foot, Tom Wesselmann, 1968)
Acrylic paint, sprayed acrylic, pigmented inkjet on canvas
40 x 50 inches, 2017

Tricia Wright Walled Garden  Acrylic paint, sprayed acrylic, pigmented inkjet on canvas
Walled Garden; Impossible Shoe for an Impossible Woman (pump with 10-inch heel, Christian Louboutin, 2007)
Acrylic paint, sprayed acrylic, pigmented inkjet on canvas
40 x 50 inches, 2018
Tricia Wright Walled Garden  Acrylic paint, sprayed acrylic, pigmented inkjet on canvas
Walled Garden; Groin (Fragment, Roman, 1st/2nd Century A.D.)
Acrylic paint, sprayed acrylic, pigmented inkjet on canvas
40 x 50 inches, 2017

Tricia Wright Walled Garden  Acrylic paint, sprayed acrylic, pigmented inkjet on canvas
Walled Garden; Mouth (fragment, Egyptian, 14th Century B.C.)
Acrylic paint, sprayed acrylic, pigmented inkjet on canvas
40 x 50 inches, 2017
Tricia Wright Walled Garden  Acrylic paint, sprayed acrylic, pigmented inkjet on canvas
Walled Garden; Voice (stills from video performance, 'Not I' Samuel Beckett, 1973)
Acrylic paint, sprayed acrylic, pigmented inkjet on canvas
40 x 50 inches, 2018

Tricia Wright Walled Garden  Acrylic paint, sprayed acrylic, pigmented inkjet on canvas
Walled Garden; Mind (Melancholy, Edgas Degas, 1874)
Acrylic paint, sprayed acrylic, pigmented inkjet on canvas
40 x 50 inches, 2018
Tricia Wright Walled Garden  Acrylic paint, sprayed acrylic, pigmented inkjet on canvas
Walled Garden; A Man Looking at a Woman Looking at Herself (Jo, La Belle Irlandaise, Gustave Courbet, 1865/66)
Acrylic paint, sprayed acrylic, pigmented inkjet on canvas
40 x 50 inches, 2017

Tricia Wright Walled Garden  Acrylic paint, sprayed acrylic, pigmented inkjet on canvas
Walled Garden; A Woman Looking at Herself (Marcia, unknown medieval artist, 1402)
Acrylic paint, sprayed acrylic, pigmented inkjet on canvas
40 x 50 inches, 2017