About the Exhibition
“The experience of nature where I have lived and where I have visited has allowed the creation of a visual representation of that outside world that excites me. It is a merge of experimentation, examination, scientific and private collecting. The repetition and collective build up of shapes and forms in nature is the inspiration for my artwork. I seek to expose the structures of the outside world revealing the layers from the ground to the sky or the buildup of microscopic organisms to make up the macroscopic world. Looking closely you can see the pattern and structure of the organisms that work together to make something new. I have found a correlation between the two sources that mimic one another. I am very intrigued by the way microscopic and macroscopic forms can visually appear alike and repeat themselves. I enjoy the idea of an organism being made of smaller structures that look like the larger design they create. I emulate and represent the organic and imaginative beauty and structure of the natural environment by using direct and personal representations of macroscopic and microscopic images. I am interested in the combination of these images to show a space between what is known and what is uncovered and by shifting scale and perspective, the big becomes the small, the massive becomes the minuscule and the expected becomes the unexpected.” – Autumn C. Wright
About the Artist
Autumn C. Wright is an artist and educator living and working in York, Pennsylvania and surrounding areas. She spends most of her free time making art, baking, gardening, and hanging out with her husband and dog. In 2017 she graduated with her Masters of Fine arts in Printmaking from Indiana University. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Millersville University in 2011 with a concentration in Printmaking and Drawing. Autumn has attended artist workshops at Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina, The School of Visual Arts in Chautauqua New York, and a photography study abroad program to Japan. Her artwork is a product of close examination of natural objects, experimentation with new materials, and is informed by the history of scientific and private collecting. She engages themes centering on biology, microscopic and macroscopic systems, memory and iconography to create multi-media artwork about the natural world. Autumn has shown her work nationally as well as internationally including shows in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Kentucky, Indiana, Italy and Japan.