Maura Wright

AGO Projects and ZAK+FOX are pleased to present the show “A Taste of Something Special” by American ceramicist Maura Wright at ZAK+FOX´s showroom located on the top floor of a quintessential New York City building.

Maura Wright is a Kansas City-based artist. Primarily working in earthenware, Wright’s coil-built vessels pay homage to historical influences ranging from French Rococo porcelain to Italian fresco painting to American folk art. Bold and colorful patterns are paired with a reverence for romantic classical forms. The resulting pastiche embraces the expressive capabilities of clay. Repetitive perfection achieved in traditional ornament is replaced with a decadent facade that highlights the process of the handmade and the impropriety and insouciance of contemporary culture. Wright’s practice has expanded to include large-scale installations of painted paper and wood depicting the domestic interior.

Wright earned her MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 2018 and a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2013. She has held residencies at several institutions

in the US as well as the International Ceramics Studio in Kecskemet, Hungary, and Guldagergaard, International Ceramic Research Center in Skaelskor, Denmark. Most recently she was an artist in residence at the Archie Bray Foundation.

After spending six years in Montana, she relocated her studio to the Midwest in 2024.

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