By permission of the artist, The Cyber Art Show is pleased to feature the second of two 12-piece exhibitions of works by contemporary 

American landscape painter Cory Wright (born 1976 in Florida, USA). 
 

Florida artist Cory Wright  graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1998 with a BFA degree in Painting. In 1996 she was accepted into the school's European Honors Program and afforded the unique opportunity to study for 9 months in Rome. Since then, in addition to being an art instructor and studio painter, she has had an accomplished career as a muralist, specializing in the tromp l’oiel technique, for over 25 years.

 

In 2011 Wright's artistic journey began to change course, however, when she discovered her passion for painting en plein air during a workshop in Italy. She soon began participating in and winning awards at various Paint Outs throughout the state of Florida. Her paintings are now held in numerous national and international private collections.

These days Cory can most often be found outdoors at her easel, capturing the ever-changing effects of light and shadows on the land and sea around her, or in her Art Studio & Gallery in Historic Palmetto.
 

Teaching/Professional 

 

2010-present Art Instructor, John Crawford Art Education Studio, SouthShore Regional Library

 

Oil Painters of America

 

American Impressionists Society

 

Plein Air Colony of Pinellas

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Light Chasers Plein Air Painters of the Sun Coast

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Women Painters of the SouthEast 

 

2013-2014 South Shore Arts Council Member, Board of Directors, Ruskin FL, 2009-20012

 

Assistant to artist Joseph Norman on completion of 70 ft. long mural depicting RI monuments at the Rhode Island Convention Center, 1996

                                                    Education

 

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI 1998

 

Plein Air Painting Workshops with Marc Dalessio, Lori Putnam, Morgan Samuel Price, Katie Dobson Cundiff, Bill Farnsworth, and Jason Sacran

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Awards & Exhibitions

 

2016

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3rd Place & People’s Choice Award at the 4th Annual Arcadia Plein Air Paint Out

 

1 of 4 Artists selected to produce a painting representing Bradenton, FL’s Old Main Street for the “Realize Bradenton” Public Art Panel Postcard Project

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Juried into OPA (Oil Painters of America) National Exhibition, Southwest Gallery, Dallas TX

 

Juried into The PAC (Plein Air Colony of Pinellas) Show at Staybridge Suites Hotel in St. Petersburg FL sponsored by ARTicles Art Gallery

 

Honorable Mention, Light Chasers Annual Show

 

Painting of Old Main Street featured on The Palmetto Community Redevelopment Agency’s bags for the Manatee County Fair

 

2015

 

3rd Place & People’s Choice Award at the 3rd Annual Arcadia Plein Air Paint Out

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2nd Place, Sarasota Art & Frame “Favorite Things” juried show

 

3rd Place, Sarasota Art & Frame “Summer Beauty” juried show

 

President’s Choice & People’s Choice Awards at the Florida Botanical Gardens, “Diggin’ The Arts” Quick Draw Plein Air Competition

 

Honorable Mention, Paint Sarasota/Light Chasers Show

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Honorable Mention, Paint Sarasota Quick Draw Competition

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2014

 

1st Place, Hyde Park Chalk Walk “Quick Draw” Plein Air Competition

 

Solo Exhibition, Schilling Gallery, Westminster Church in Knoxville, TN

 

2013

 

2013-2016 Represented by The Studio at Gulf & Pine Art Gallery, Anna Maria Island, FL

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Juried into WPSE (Women Painters of the Southeast) Exhibition, Magnolia Gallery, Greensboro GA

 

2nd Place, Hyde Park Chalk Walk “Quick Draw” Plein Air Competition

 

Honorable Mention Award, Sarasota Paint Out

 

Honorable Mention Award, Paint the Town Bradenton

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2011-2013 Honorable Mention, Hyde Park Chalk Walk Street Painting Festival