Holly Wright: Vanity

Exhibition

Holly Wright: Vanity

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Curated By
Hannah Cattarin (they/she), Former Associate Curator and M. Jordan Love (she/her) Carol R. Angle Academic Curator

Wright taught photography at UVA for sixteen years (1984-2000).  During that time, she also helped shape the photography collection of The Fralin Museum of Art. This is her first solo exhibition at the museum.  Vanity draws upon works created mostly during her teaching career and features selections from three series of works: Final Portraits, Vanity, and Poetry. Together these reveal Wright’s fascination with photography’s capacity to both capture and confuse human forms of communication—be it speech, the work of one’s hand, or posing for the camera—and her command of scale and the subtle tonalities of black and white film.