157. WENDY
WHITE
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Völkl II, 2015, 250 x 170 cm
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Bitch Move, Oh Well, 2015, acrylic on synthetic rug, 245 x 365 cm
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| Letdown, 2015, 105 x 66 cm |
BIO & STEPS
Born:
In 1971 in Deep River CT, USA
Nowadays:
Lives and works in New York City.
Studies:
1993 BFA Savannah College of Art &
Design, Savannah, GA
2003 MFA Mason Gross School of the Arts,
Rutgers University, NJ
Themes and
style:
Wendy White is a contemporary artist who manages
to create a consistent aesthetic from a wide range of interests—athletics,
branding and architecture. New York City is her subject and muse. White sees
the city as a palimpsest, with its streets and structures revealing the
physical marks of millions of passersby and hundreds of years of use, reuse,
and reinvention. Her canvases, too, are like palimpsests, layered with
fragments of texts, images, passages of color, and gestural brushstrokes, all
based on her observations of her urban environment and inspired by Andy
Warhol andRobert
Rauschenberg. She describes her work as “a hybrid experience: painting
and sculpture smashed together with buildings and streets, how it feels walking
around a massive city, urban ghosts, forgotten architecture, new signs.”
Techniques:
Wendy White creates mixed-media works, incorporating
awnings, disused store front signage, digitally manipulated photographs, and
found objects into her acrylic and spray painted canvases.
Exhibitions
Her group exhibitions include Los Angeles County Museum of
Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA; Sotheby's S|2, Harris Lieberman, Nicole
Klagsbrun, Fredericks & Freiser (all New York, NY); CCA Andratx, Mallorca,
Spain; Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, Nebraska; Kunstverein
Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin, Germany; Motus Fort, Tokyo, Japan; Aschenbach
& Hofland, Amsterdam, NL; and Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art,
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
See all at:
Representative
Galleries:
David Castillo
In
her own words:
“Painting
as a singular discipline isn’t my thing.”
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