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Abstract art has turned the full circle and is now back in fashion with a vengeance.

Young Elam graduate Grace Wright opens a vibrant show of abstract expressionist paintings in Auckland next week in her first show at a dealer gallery. This show titled “Loop” encompasses a delightful blend of flowing tubular shapes throughout the series of paintings.

A voluptuous mix of both primary and pastel shades are enhanced with touches of black shading and ambient alliterative titles such as “Midnight Mojitos Under the Moonlight” and “Key Lime Pie on a Lemon Lounger”. Wright says “The names are almost ridiculous - often a common saying or something I’ve been thinking about. I’m always trying to imagine what the painting would be saying. Often I’m reminded of cycles – seasons, times of the day – whether a painting is a morning one or a midnight one for example”. Wright states, “Conceptual lightness as a contemporary idea is also something I’m interested in.

These are playful works that don’t attempt to address any directly political or conceptual meaning. Rather, they are about the pleasure of viewing painting in a material and visual sense. Referencing bodiliness, oozing and flowing forms seems an exciting way of approaching the history of abstraction”.

There has been a great deal of interest in Grace Wright’s work already this year prior to this exhibition and she has already been commissioned to complete a large work for a client.

Viewing this colourful and vibrant exhibition will most certainly brighten up a winters day.

The show opens at the Warwick Henderson Gallery, Level 1, 255 Broadway, Newmarket, Auckland, with a Preview on Tuesday 4th August and is on view until 22nd August 2015.