Bing Wright

From the late 1980s on, Bing Wright’s photographs have utilized readymade framing devices: windows, glass, and mirrors, all photographed in closely cropped compositions that flatten the picture plane and place contemplative attention on what would otherwise be minute details of a scene. Focusing on depth of field, surface, and scale, Wright engages the photograph as the index of an ephemeral moment. Having worked almost exclusively in black and white, Wright has recently introduced color into his work, creating a series of photographs of sunsets as reflected in broken mirrors, and experimenting with formats that recall traditional Chinese and Japanese scrolls and custom-printed wallpapers; all of these new endeavors further Wright’s expansion of photography’s materiality and the ways that the medium captures and conveys the experience of sight. 

Bing Wright was born in Seattle in 1958 and received a BA in Art History from Columbia University in New York. His work been shown in exhibitions at the New Museum in New York, White Columns in New York, the Queens Museum of Art in New York, and the Tang Museum and Art Gallery in Saratoga Springs, among others. His work is in several public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Portland Art Museum, the Seattle Art Museum, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase Bank, and Citigroup. Wright recently curated an exhibition of 1970s photography from the collection of the Washington Art Consortium. He lives and works in New York City.