Intro & Overview
My first and forever medium has been and will always be drawing.
While I was primarily focused on illustration from a young age into my mid-teens, I’ve always enjoyed exploring various mediums.
My Process
“I begin with rapid ideation, generating as many ideas as possible through divergence, then pairing down to a few for deeper exploration through convergence before landing on a specific theme, concept, and direction.”
From the pencil, pen, and ink of my early days to digital art, silk screen printing, film, and digital photography in my teens (and still to this day), then to event and tradeshow design, and later still to generative AI, motion design, animation, and the like, there’s always something new and exciting worth exploring. At one point in my early 20’s I transitioned full-time to professional creative services and ventures, creating extensive digital, web, and app designs for an equally wide and diverse range of industries and clients.
Now in my mid-40s, I continue leveraging these methods and more to nurture my personal and professional growth, interests, and capabilities.
Statement
Like my art, my formal POV and statement are dynamic and evolving.
NYC during mid-2010’s.
I typically start from a place of emotion, mood, and energy to inform the medium and subject material.
And much of my work is as un/sub-conscious as it is intentional.
Since an early age, it's always been a tried and proven method to express and make clear the unknown, unclear, and unforgiving need and desire to create.
As with my professional design work, I begin with rapid ideation, generating as many ideas as possible through divergence, then pairing down to a few for deeper exploration through convergence before landing on a specific theme, concept, and direction.
Photography has dominated my attention for years, occurring spontaneously and in the wild, often literally outdoors in nature. However, I enjoy the intersection of nature and artificial subject matter, frequently railways, architecture, and other fabricated/built environments.
Some common explorations often focus on and around juxtaposition, motion, tension, time, mood, and nostalgia.
Bio
Jedi Wright is a self-taught artist with some mixed training along the way.
Starting at 6, he took his first formal art classes locally with Jere Brady at his Morgantown, PA-based Brady's Village Art Gallery & Rock Shop, followed quickly by more formal study at the Wyomissing Institute of Fine Arts for several years alongside his primary school art classes.
In middle school/junior high, he entered a graphic arts apprenticeship under John Flemming's Morgantown-based company, JAM Screen Printing, where he received a wide-ranging introduction to graphic design, traditional silk screen printing design, and more. Later, he transitioned from public school art education to private study through Upattinas, based in Glenmoore, PA. Upon graduation, he attended The Bradley Academy in York, PA, from which he then relocated and transferred out west to Santa Monica College for Computer Science and Art Center College of Design to study Interaction Design in Pasadena, CA.
He dabbled in public shows for a bit in his 20s, with a solo show at The Bradley Academy in 2000, followed by a series of sponsored shows touring the former Borders Books and Music chain from York to Allentown, the Main Line, and Philly, then later in Los Angeles until 2002. He went largely virtual until recently, with a small entry into Barnstone Art's 2023 annual Live Art Spectacular fundraiser.
During his time in Cali, from 2002 to early 2013, he became heavily and widely involved in several art-based initiatives, ranging from the At-Large representative for the Mid-City Neighborhood Council to a founding member of both The Do LaB and later its Do Art Foundation, to several artist collectives, including the Sugar Shack intentional artist community and the Catalyst and Elwood Arts artist collectives.
He later moved back to southeastern PA, settling in Phoenixville in 2014, where he has prior ties, including a parent who taught 6th-grade science and language arts at PASD and a grandparent whose family once allegedly owned a farm that pre-dated Kimberton Fairgrounds. Since then, he's volunteered with the Firebird Festival and the RUNegades and founded several local ventures, including the Phoenixville Daily, Rivertribe Outdoors, and UX Minds.