Jamele Wright Sr.

Jamele Wright Sr. (born 1970, Dayton, Ohio, United States) is an American artist whose multidisciplinary practice explores the Black American vernacular experience, migration, family, and spiritual relationships between Africa and the American South. Working across mixed media, textile-based abstraction, sculpture, painting, and installation, Wright examines memory, material culture, and Black life through found materials, Georgia red clay, Dutch wax cloth, and sampling-based formal strategies.  Wright studied Art History at Georgia State University and later earned an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. His work often engages abstraction, Great Migration histories, Black material traditions, family, and the spiritual and physical resonance of land, using layered textiles, clay, found objects, and painterly construction to consider continuity, rupture, and the making of diasporic identity.  His work has been exhibited at Mindy Solomon Gallery, the Gibbes Museum of Art, the Albany Museum of Art, and in projects such as We Are All Kinda Floating in Athens, Georgia. He has completed a fellowship at Project for Empty Spaces and residencies at MASS MoCA, Vermont Studio Center, Hambidge Art Center, and the Gibbes Museum of Art. Jamele Wright Sr. lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia.