September 19 - October 24, 2025
227 E 24th St, New York, NY 10010
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ModA Curations is pleased to announce its third bi-annual exhibition, the second one in New York City and our permanent NYC location's debut show, "Love", along with the grand opening featuring three pieces of performance art at 227 E 24th St. The opening reception takes place on June 27, from 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm.
ModA curations is pleased to announce John Wright’s upcoming solo exhibition, ‘ii mirror journey’ at our New York City location. Opening September 19, 6—8 PM, 227 E 24th St. The opening reception will feature a live set performed by the artist. Accompanying text by Sharon Xinran Zhang. Please email info@moda-studio.com for previews and inquiries. ‘ii mirror journey’ continues until October 24.
EXHIBITION TEXT
"One man can change the world" may seem insensitive or impractical in the current context. In a world which superstructure executes out of an urge of purity through rage and pain, the delirious socio-political differences and suffering is inevitable. For John Wright’s new body of work, this urgency for change and underlying anxiety are expressed through the intertwined themes of selfhood, society, and psychological space.
Wright’s creative process responds intuitively to both external and internal realities. Drawing inspiration from close individuals, he transforms people into artistic instruments, orchestrating a harmonic melody out of all the abused emotions. Highlighting singular encounters, Wright entices a collision of experiences—offering perspectives that are both foreign and familiar. The paintings now become objects of desire that presents a holistic view of life. In contrast to these elusive narratives, Time and Space appear obsolete, as the referenced or imagined figures present an utterly divinity within.
Granted, these are still the original human body — the flesh and bones, its own machine. Wright did not stop at depiction, he omits the peculiarity by populating the surfaces through collage, a transcendence between identities of personal and political made possible through repetition. The body functions as both surface and vessel: both an area to be dismantled and a space to be filled. Like skin, they stretch through broader of identity, power, and memory. Gesture and expression serve not only aesthetic purposes but as objects of affection, recirculating these works back to everyday life, societal norms, ego, and internalized trauma. This recursive process fosters reinterpretation, a dialogue between the familiar and the broken. Wright’s visual language—whether portraying solitary faces, interconnected bodies, or fractured dreamscapes—embodies a tension between existential absence and a yearning for purpose, reflecting ongoing struggles with historical dislocation and marginalization.
This tension also animates Wright’s musical practice under the stage name Jhnchristopher. His album "ii" functions as a sonic complement to the artistic visuality and materiality: layered, atmospheric, and raw. Like his paintings, which oscillate between clarity and dissolution, his music explores vulnerability and resilience, weaving soundscapes that evoke solitude and connection. Together, these mediums enhance each other—music providing rhythm to the imagery, while painting lends flesh to sound—enacting a dialogue that is deeply autobiographical yet profoundly communal.
Wright’s figures, whether painted or sung, are haunted by the feeling of being “one of or parallel to the equivalent of nothingness,” a state that paradoxically generates momentum—a force that drives both the will to create and the desire to heal. From this origin point of fracture and displacement, he has forged a cohesive vision that finds strength in collective support, mental resilience, and radical self-expression.
Through the fragmented visual layering with the muffled audible, Wright articulates a possibility of reconciliation amid the chaos of our time. An inevitable one.
Text by Sharon Xinran Zhang
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About ModA Curations
ModA Curations is a creative organization bridging contemporary art and sociocultural anthropology. Functioning as a sub-entity of Modern Anthropology (ModA) Studios, LLC, ModA Curations operates virtually, with in-person, bi-annual exhibitions, showing spring and fall in New York City and Los Angeles, respectively. ModA Studios was founded in the Fall of 2023 by Executive Director and Anthropologist Georgian “George” Fan.
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