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On view in Manhattan through January 20, 2026, Wright’s new large-scale paintings engage with the speed, scale, and inundation of images today.
Detail of Connor Wright’s “Untitled” (2025), oil stick and paint on canvas, 7 1/2 feet x 18 1/2 feet (photography by Max Yawney)
Connor Wright presents Alexa, Truth or Dare? a solo exhibition of new paintings in New York City. With these works, the artist aims to reinterpret an encyclopedic range of images — from the political to the iconic and the lesser-known — with a deeply personal, intuitive visual language. In an age of extreme subjectivity, dopamine loops, and fame cycles shrinking faster than a Warholian prophecy, Wright isn’t interested in decoding the chaos so much as metabolizing it. Curated by Jesse Bandler Firestone, Alexa, Truth or Dare? is on view at 545 West 23rd Street until January 20, 2026.
To collapse a hierarchy of images, Wright pulls source material from literally everywhere: personal archives, sports photography, niche internet culture, found objects, and historical documents. The iconic sits shoulder-to-shoulder with the mundane, the political with the personal, the tragic with the absurd — all filtered through the same graphic logic.
Rendered in oil atop spray-painted color fields akin to acid-laced tie-dye, his characters hover between figuration and abstraction, presence and outline. To honor these figures, Wright paints them monumental in scale, yet thin, intentionally exaggerated, elongated, and queered. Their hands stand out as avatars of artistic agency, tenderness, and Wright’s ongoing distortion of visual representation. In his eyes, men, nuns, women, and children alike all don the longest of acrylic nails.
In a cultural moment saturated with noise, Wright’s paintings attempt to make the cacaphony legible, not by taming it, but by letting it be strange, sensual, and alive.
To learn more, visit connorwright.art.
