{"id":7,"date":"2020-08-26T20:48:23","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T20:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sundayrebel.com\/art\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2026-05-15T06:14:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T06:14:21","slug":"bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sundayrebel.com\/art\/bio\/","title":{"rendered":"BIO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1280\" src=\"http:\/\/sundayrebel.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Bio-Florida_1280.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sundayrebel.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Bio-Florida_1280.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/sundayrebel.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Bio-Florida_1280-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sundayrebel.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Bio-Florida_1280-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sundayrebel.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Bio-Florida_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sundayrebel.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Bio-Florida_1280-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sundayrebel.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Bio-Florida_1280-640x640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sundayrebel.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Bio-Florida_1280-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Jesse Wright is an artist, educator whose work serves as a poetic meditation on displacement, migration and scripture. His layered visual language references his blended Jamaican American heritage and speaks to a diverse reverence to a longing for home physically and spiritually. Hope and resilience are given attention in the complexity of ancestral narratives and present-day experiences. Wright\u2019s committed to empowering and uplifting community through creative engagement projects and global humanitarian initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wright received his BFA from SVA in New York. His work has been featured in exhibitions including Passaic County Art Center, Hawthorne, NJ; Newark Historical Society, Newark, NJ; Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ; Kean University, Union, NJ; Latchkey Gallery, New York, NY; Akwaaba Gallery, Newark, NJ. Large-scale commissioned murals can be seen globally including Terminals A &amp; B at Newark Airport, NJ. Wright lives in New York with his wife, owner of Claybird Pottery Studio, and their daughters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesse Wright is an artist, educator whose work serves as a poetic meditation on displacement, migration and scripture. His layered visual language references his blended Jamaican American heritage and speaks to a diverse reverence to a longing for home physically and spiritually. Hope and resilience are given attention in the complexity of ancestral narratives and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/full-width-page.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundayrebel.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundayrebel.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundayrebel.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundayrebel.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundayrebel.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/sundayrebel.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":552,"href":"https:\/\/sundayrebel.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundayrebel.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}