“With my senses, as with birds, I climb into the windy heaven, out of the oak, and in the ponds broken off from the sky my feeling sinks, as if standing on fishes.” – Rainer Maria Rilke, Moving Forward Sea View is pleased to present Standing on Fishes, a solo exhibition by English artist, William Wright (b. 1971, United Kingdom). Spanning over a year of work, Wright’s debut exhibition at Sea View provides an intimate window into the artist’s personal observations and his emphasis on routine for a creative life. They are deceptively simple in subject matter yet complex and unexpected in color and texture, resulting from countless layers of oil paint that have been sanded down and repeatedly applied over months at a time. Wright’s muted palette conjures the works of Giorgio Morandi and James Castle, while his uniquely graphic and playful approach to painting treads on the heels of Philip Guston and Alfred Wallace.