10/30/2026
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A Hug From The Art World is thrilled to announce Nothing To Worry About, Stuart Pearson Wright’s first New York solo exhibition, and his first exhibition anywhere in the United States.
The exhibition will open on Thursday, November 5th, with a reception from 6-8 PM at 515 West 19th Street, New York, NY 10011 and on view Tuesday – Saturday, 10 AM-6 PM through Saturday, December 19th. This mid-career survey brings together paintings and drawings from the mid-1990s to present day. It will also be the gallery’s final exhibition at
our 515 West 19th Street space.
Stuart Pearson Wright’s arresting images have stayed etched in my visual memory since I first encountered them in the late 1990s. I remember my father coming home from London after visiting Stuart’s studio and announcing that he had found the next Lucian Freud. Anyone who is familiar with my father knows that his enthusiasm is insatiable and contagious. In many ways, that enthusiasm is why we are here today.
Like the early work of Lucian Freud, Stuart Pearson Wright’s paintings pair a hyper-detailed style with a sense of psychological unease. I have long been drawn to the art of the early twentieth century, and I see in Stuart’s work the same psychology of the uncanny that runs through Egon Schiele’s haunting, skeletal works of 1907 to 1918. Schiele was a major influence on Freud of course. He brought an unflinching, raw approach to the human body, with angular lines, contorted forms, and a relentless focus on aging and physical imperfection. Above all, he brought psychological vulnerability and an intense, confrontational self-examination. Schiele’s lineage extends and reaches into the New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit) of 1920s Germany, exemplified by Otto Dix’s Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia von Harden. It then crosses the Atlantic to Grant Wood’s American Gothic and the American Regionalists. Stuart’s paintings belong in this company.
Stuart Pearson Wright
A HUG FROM THE ART WORLD
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Stuart’s paintings speak to something deep inside both my father and me. We respond to
art viscerally: when something reaches our core, we are physically moved. I believe that r
