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WENDY WHITE
INDEPENDENT
MAY 8 - 11, 2025
Wendy White’s multidisciplinary practice involves the use of nontraditional materials to create objects which challenge conventional notions of painting and sculpture. In a continuous navigation of space, White constructs paintings that seem to extend outside of the two-dimensional picture plane, and sculptures which might seamlessly blend into supporting structures, if not for their sheer physicality. The precise gradation and accumulation of MTN 94 enamel based spray paint on clear stretched vinyl creates a dimensional, colorful haze through which White’s characteristic iconography of rainbows, clouds, palm trees, and pixel hearts emerge. Developed across the span of her career, these distinctive symbols utilize the vernacular of contemporary branding, American pop culture, and twentieth-century art history to explore themes involving the passage of time and the inconstancy of emotion inherent in the human experience.
Wendy White (b. 1971, Deep River, CT) is based in New York City. Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions at Gaa, Provincetown and New York; Galerie Lange + Pult, Zürich; Kaikai Kiki, Tokyo; Leo Koenig Inc., New York; Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles; COUNTY, Palm Beach; Maruani Noirhomme, Brussels; VAN HORN, Düsseldorf; Denny Dimin Gallery, New York; David Castillo, Miami; Eric Firestone Gallery, New York; Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago; Galerie Jérôme Pauchant, Paris; Sherrick & Paul, Nashville; and Galeria Moriarty, Madrid.
White’s work was the subject of a solo museum exhibition in 2021 entitled Low Pressure at Museum Goch, Germany. She was recently included in Resistance Training: Arts, Sports, and Civil Rights at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum in East Lansing, MI. Other institutional group exhibitions include The World’s Game: Fútbol and Contemporary Art at Perez Art Museum in Miami, FL; Fútbol: The Beautiful Game at LACMA in Los Angeles, CA; Full of Peril and Weirdness at M Woods in Beijing, China; and American Idyll at SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, GA.
White was awarded the Teiger Teaching Mentorship at Cornell University (2019); a Painting Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts (2012); a George & Helen Segal Foundation Painting Grant (2005); The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Residency (2004); and the Leon Golub Scholarship (2001). Her work was included in Phaidon’s anthology Vitamin P2: New Perspectives in Painting with an essay by Barry Schwabsky (2011), as well as numerous other publications and monographs.
Public collections include Detroit Institute of the Arts, Detroit, MI; The High Museum, Atlanta, GA; RISD Art Museum, Providence, RI; Museum Goch, Goch, Germany; Bank of America, New York, NY; Kranzberg Art Foundation, St. Louis, MO; Saks Fifth Avenue, New York, NY; Taguchi Art Collection, Tokyo, Japan; UK Art Museum, Lexington, KY; Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta, GA; Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah, GA and Lacoste, France; UBS Art Collection, New York, NY; Progressive Art Collection, Mayfield, OH; Red Bull Art Collection; The Shinola Hotel, Detroit, MI; and ARCO Foundation, Madrid, Spain.
