Krista Wright is an artist who uses her work to transport viewers into the world of her imagination. Through multiple mediums such as painting, printmaking and sculpture, the worlds expand and mutate from pure imagination to surreal experience.
While her screen prints act as a direct portal into fantastically colorful landscapes inhabited by impossible creatures, her paintings push the perception of what’s pretend and what’s real, but stay within the possible.
The character's handmade masked appearances are all inspired by characters from her own mythology. The strangeness of these otherwise human figures, combined with the scenes’ heightened color and lighting distort this reality into something strange and different.
All of the presented characters, with such big teeth and eyes or no real facial expression available, create a tension wherein the viewer teeters on the edge of whether they should trust these creatures. Context clues suggest that not everything is what it seems and that these eccentric figures are in fact amiable and a source of comfort.
I invite the inquisitive viewer to join in this wondrous party, where the artist simultaneously escapes from and confronts reality. The monotonous and stressful thoughts, feelings and emotions of the ‘adult world’ appear in traditional, dimensional, painterly, representation and coexist with a colorful world of fantastical imaginaria.