Michael Wright exhibiting work in San Diego exhibition “Urban Legends and Country Tales”.

Michael Wright, aka Mrags Writer is exhibiting work in a juried exhibition called “Urban Legends and Country Tales”. The exhibition showcasing the work of forty-two artists from around the world opens on the 4th of October, 2008 at the Bonita Museum, San Diego, California. The opening and public reception for Urban Legends and Country Tales will be 6 to 8:30 pm on Saturday, Oct. 4th. Wright will be exhibiting a print from his avatar series as one of the fifty juried prints demonstrating the multiple directions art has taken in the contemporary art world – both in pluralism of styles and the hybridism of technique and media. The jurors for this exhibit included Don Archer, the founder in 1993 of the world's largest online computer art museum - MOCA [http://moca.virtual.museum/] ; Andrew Darlow, photographer and author of 301 Inkjet Tips and Techniques, and editor of imagingbuffet.com and inkjettips.com ; and Mel Strawn an artist for over six decades; published in Going Digital: The Practice and Vision of Digital Artists.

Michael Wright is a painter who began to explore Digital Media in the mid 1980s on an Amiga computer. He exhibited his first Digital Prints in 1989. He has exhibited digital and traditional works on a national & international level over the past 38 years. He is currently exploring art and art education in virtual reality.
Wright's digital work is represented in “The Art of the Digital Age” my Bruce Wands, “Going Digital”  by Joseph Nalven and JD Jarvis,"Computer Graphics World" '25 year Retrospective of Digital Art" in its January 2002 issue and in  the magazine’s "Portfolio" section of the November, 2001, issue.  Wright is profiled in "Computer Graphics Companion" edited by Jeffrey McConnell Anthony Ralston and Edwin Reilly His work also appears  in  "The Computer in the Visual Arts" by Anne Morgan Spalter of Brown University, published by Addison Wesley and is also published in Linda Jacob's seminal book, "CyberArts: Exploring Art & Technology".  He and his work have been featured in Wired, Micro Publishing News, Computer Graphics & Applications and Agent X, Television Tokyo. Wright's digital prints are in the collection of the State Museum in Novorsibirsk, Russia and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London UK, the repository for British art book & print collections.

Wright is a professor in the Digital Media and Liberal Studies Programs at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles. He is  a member of SIGGRAPH,  Ylem,  ASCI,  ACM, NMC, and the Los Angeles Printmaking Society.   He is the recipient of the Otis Award of Excellence in Arts Education and served as Art Gallery Chair for ACM SIGGRAPH 2003 in San Diego California. He was a guest artist at the SIGGRAPH 2004 & 2005 conferences in Los Angeles where he created the “Portrait Virus” at the SIGGRAPH Guerilla Studio. Wright was one of six resident artists invited to SIGGRAPH’S first Artists in Residence Program at SIGGRAPH 2007, in San Diego.  Wright as also curated into the SIGGRAPH international exhibition “Global Eyes” 2007. Wright exhibited work this past summer as part of  “Digital Art.LA  International New Media Expo” at the Los Angeles Center For Digital Art in Downtown Los Angeles curated by Howard Fox, curator of contemporary art, L.A. County Museum of Art.

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