Anthony Wright said he started sculpting in 1979.
“My work is loosely based on landscapes, I never try to get too literal or anything like that, but that’s the starting point,” he said.
A few days before its debut inside the Mayer Museum in San Angelo, students and curators are unwrapping works by Wright, made primarily of welded steel and wood, inspired by landscapes that he finds during his travels.
They might start as photographs or drawings, but he enjoys taking the landscapes and manipulating their outlines:
“I’m taking shapes I see in the landscape and recreating them, adding to them, taking away from them. It’s an intuitive process once I get started. It may be something like a fence line, or an interesting building. From there in the studio, I start working to recreate some of the landscapes.”
The exhibition will feature a special “temporary” piece called “Angelo Interlock”, which Wright says he’ll design impromptu, and which will be disassembled and disappeared once the exhibit is over.
For a centerpiece titled “The Calm” the central slab of Walnut was reclaimed and milled out of Austin, with intricate dovetails, and a French polish finish that depicts a kind of “creek-like” aesthetic, which makes sense as Wright says the piece is inspired by the flow of a river.
You can catch this unique art exhibit debut on Nov. 4, which runs to March of 2026 at the Mayer Museum, at Angelo State University.
