{"id":3692,"date":"2023-05-04T15:15:13","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T15:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/?p=3692"},"modified":"2023-05-04T15:51:49","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T15:51:49","slug":"michael-wright-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/?p=3692","title":{"rendered":"Michael Wright Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Director of SEFA, Liz Lorenz, sat down to speak with Michael\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Wright<\/span>\u00a0the day following the Opening Reception of \u201cRefracted Wilderness,\u201d his debut exhibition at SEFA Hudson. We were delighted that Michael, age 91, chose to make the trip from his home in Santa Fe, NM to celebrate the exhibition, which features paintings by Michael and Katharine Dufault.<\/p>\n<p>Liz and Michael touched on a myriad of subjects\u2014from his experience as studio assistant for Willem de Kooning in East Hampton (1963-66), to his love for the landscapes and unique light of the Southwest, the artist\u2019s constant muse since moving to Santa Fe in the 1980s. He has many wonderful stories to tell about his practice and his relationships with both people and earth.<\/p>\n<p>We invite you to listen to the interview here!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Refracted Wilderness&#8221; is on view at SEFA Hudson through May 28, 2023 and more information can be found in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/Detail\/exhibitions\/232\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3697\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3697\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3697\" src=\"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/MW-RF-Install-1024x586.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"586\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/MW-RF-Install-1024x586.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/MW-RF-Install-297x170.png 297w, https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/MW-RF-Install-524x300.png 524w, https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/MW-RF-Install-768x440.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3697\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Installation View: Michael Wright, &#8220;Refracted Wilderness,&#8221; SEFA Hudson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1170px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-3692-1\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Michael-Wright-Interview-with-Liz-Lorenz.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Michael-Wright-Interview-with-Liz-Lorenz.mp4\">https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Michael-Wright-Interview-with-Liz-Lorenz.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Director of SEFA, Liz Lorenz, sat down to speak with Michael\u00a0Wright\u00a0the day following the Opening Reception of \u201cRefracted Wilderness,\u201d his debut exhibition at SEFA Hudson. We were delighted that Michael, age 91, chose to make the trip from his home in Santa Fe, NM to celebrate the exhibition, which features paintings by Michael and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3692"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3701,"href":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3692\/revisions\/3701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}