The Las Vegas Art Museum (LVAM) will present the exhibition, Cindy Wright: Paintings 2004-2006 from April 15 through June 11, 2006. The exhibition will feature 10 large-scale paintings in oil on canvas by Belgian artist Cindy Wright. The second installment in LVAM’s Contemporary Series, an ongoing series dedicated to one-person exhibitions by emerging and internationally recognized contemporary artists, the exhibition marks the artist’s Las Vegas debut and her first museum solo show in the United States.

“Cindy Wright’s large, highly detailed paintings of raw meat, close-ups of human skin and figurative portraits display a heightened realism, the juxtaposition of which adds a level of complexity to the works as a whole,” said Dr. Libby Lumpkin, LVAM’s Consulting Executive Director who organized the exhibition. “In Wright’s paintings of skin, the artist zooms in close to the ridges and contours on the surface of the body to reveal a monstrous landscape of abstract patterns. In shockingly naturalistic studies of meat, beauty and grace emerge from arrangements of tendons, fat, and muscle—food for the body is transformed into food for the eye in the tradition of Dutch still life painting.