Percy Fortini-Wright

Percy Fortini-Wright is an American artist who received his BFA at the Art Institute of Boston and MFA from Lesley College of Art and Design.

During the late 1990’s, he became a technician of wild style graffiti letters, tags and bubble letters while simultaneously evolving as a traditional painter of scenes, abstraction, and portraiture to his characters the Children from Beyond.

In graduate school he was mentored by artists Paul Rahilly, Ken Beck, Paul Goodnight, Vanessa Platacis, and Dike Blair. His inspirations range from painters like Anders Zorn to John Singer Sargent, to wild-style graffiti pieces and tags. Exhibiting within both the public and private spheres and creating large and small-scale pieces, Percy merges the worlds of classical painting and graffiti techniques boldly pushing the boundaries of his work, without being confined by stylistic stereotypes.

His work has appeared in a number of art publications including New York Times, the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Juxtapoz, ArtScope, Annie Selkie’s Fresh American Style , American Art Collector and the centerfold of the Improper Bostonian magazine, PBS (Open Studios with Jared Bowens) and Nominated Bostons Best award by the Improper Bostonian in 2015.

Past projects include work commissioned by Flank Steakhouse in Waltham, MA and Adidas for the Boston Marathon (featured in Hypebeast and Sports Illustrated).

Through his command of depth and perspective, using the spray can and brush, Fortini-Wright melds gritty elements of the streets with fine art.