Percy Fortini-Wright

Percy Fortini-Wright is a Boston based artist who received both his BFA and MFA from the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University. While in his youth he wrote graffiti, most active during the late 1990’s, becoming a technician of wild style graffiti letters, tags and bubble letters while simultaneously he evolved as a traditional painter of scenes, abstraction, and portraiture to his characters the Children from Beyond. Exhibiting within both the public and private spheres and creating large and small-scale pieces, Percy merges the worlds of classical painting and graffiti techniques boldly pushing the boundaries of his work, without being confined by stylistic stereotypes.

Additional Artist Information

“Working in spray paint, I bring the “streets to the wall.” The subject is the street, directly painted on the college campus wall. I’m attracted to the wet streets, dramatic reflections and atmospheric depth that they offer as a subject. I put the viewer in the “driver’s seat” so that every person driving by can relate to the work. Driving is an experience they would have actually just had, are having or will have at some point.
I specifically used the red traffic lights to symbolize the collective feeling that things are on pause. Metaphorically speaking, my nightscape series can be seen as a light at the end of the tunnel. In a time surrounded in darkness, these lights can be seen as a brighter future approaching.”

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