Sixtyseven Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 3rd Floor, 212-967-2260
Chelsea
September 7 - October 14, 2006
Reception: Thursday, September 7, 6 - 8 PM
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White’s work is predominantly abstract, where bold black lines often burst and overlap against bright neon color fields. Seemingly misplaced brushstrokes are sometime the conclusion of decisions based on material and physicality, resulting in environments that seem to obey gravity and other laws of nature. In the painting titled ‘Nope, etc.,’ bright circular forms blend and then break with a seemingly peaceful abstracted landscape. From afar the forms resemble neon lights attempting to convey an unreadable message. The harsh black lines in ‘Grass Stain’ at first seems integrated with the bold lines but then abruptly vanish off the white canvas.
White often uses juxtaposition of mood and technique to display her contradictory environments. She says her work relate to ”...the intersection of the natural and manmade, the polluted landscape of the future, space junk, buried hazardous material, and urban sprawl as eyesore.” This is evident in her sculptures, where the collisions of colors and found objects piled on top of one another create peculiar dizzying environments that nod to the work of her predecessors Isa Genzken, Rachel Harrison, and Jessica Stockholder.