Scale Wing, 2023 (Poster)

Exhibition poster for:Sydney Cortright‘Scale Wing’04/13 → 05/18 2023DTLAPress release:For her first solo exhibition, “Scale Wing,” Sydney Cortright presents large scale acrylic, india ink, and Flashe-on-muslin paintings, as well as smaller scale watercolor-on-paper pieces, all inspired by, and named after, butterflies. The stunning, complex pieces call to mind numerous of the artist’s influences, from Henri Rousseau to Helen Frankenthaler to Ryuki Tanaka. Throughout the show, Cortright balances delicate and bold, light and dark, saturated and washed. In Papilio chikae, 2022, we see pink, green, and russet passages that look as if an insect has been deconstructed. Dripping elements, as well as watered down sections, evoke the motion of flying. Three army green dots on the right side of the canvas recall the wing pattern common to many butterflies. Triplet specks recur elsewhere in the show, as in the hot pink patterning of Ornithoptera croesus, 2022, a horizontal teal, neon orange, and