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24/5/2002

Wayne White

Clementine Gallery, New York

For his first solo exhibition in New York, Los Angeles-based artist Wayne White will present a series of paintings and a diorama installation entitled "Roy Acuff?s Cave." Manipulating thrift-store lithographs of landscapes by adding painted architecturally-driven text, White creates work which vacillates between the serious and the ridiculous. Interested in exploring the easy, escapist nature of these "ready-made" pastoral scenes, White disrupts the idyllic settings by interjecting a personal blend of screwball surrealism and humor. His text, perspectivally rendered in monumental letters, runs the gamut from vivid pop cultural descriptions ("Nascar Tit Shirt") to post-modern observations on art ("Painting Which Came to Life Only to be Mocked-Forgotten") to colloquialisms from the American South ("Honey Where?s My Learnin Books").

Born and raised in Tennessee, White further explores escapism, pop culture, and the American South in "Roy Acuff?s Cave", a sculptural installation which pays homage to fellow Tennessean Roy Acuff, the "Backwoods Sinatra" who sold more records than any other country music star in the 1930?s and 1940?s. With this "peep show" diorama of mountains, caves, and a waterfall, White takes the exterior and interior qualities of his paintings and makes them literal. The exterior form of the sculpture represents a projection of the eye; the interior diorama represents a projection of the mind. In addition, only one viewer can experience the interior scene at a time, so that it must be shared as a subjective memory.

Wayne White?s most recent solo exhibition, entitled "Single Head Occupancy", was at Mark Moore Gallery in Santa Monica, CA. An award winning production designer for"Pee Wee?s Playhouse" and art director for Peter Gabriel?s music video "Big Time", White is also a widely published cartoonist and illustrator.

Image: "Honest Artists," 2002 acrylic on offset lithograph

Clementine Gallery 526 West 26th Street New York
open Tuesday through Saturday from 11-6 pm.

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