Wendy White | heart beats dust
New York
May 17 – July 3, 2024
Wendy White
Dripping Green (After Calder), 2022
Acrylic on canvas, painted wood frame, steel, cotton rope, dibond
122 x 94 x 15 cm / 48 x 37 x 6 in
Wendy White
Peace (One Drip), 2022
Epoxy resin, PVC
43 x 35.5 x 2.5 cm / 17 x 14 x 1 in
Wendy White
Dripping Pink (After Calder), 2022
Acrylic on canvas, painted wood frame, steel, cotton rope, dibond
122 x 94 x 15 cm / 48 x 37 x 6 in
Wendy White
Low Relief (Alone in Public) II, 2022
Epoxy resin, wood, aluminum
128 x 57 x 28 cm / 50 1/2 x 22 1/2 x 11 in
Wendy White
Peace (Resigned), 2022
Epoxy resin, aluminum
58 x 34 x 18 cm / 23 x 13 1/2 x 7 in
Wendy White
Sunset (Dripping Green), 2022
Acrylic on canvas, painted wood frame, steel, cotton rope, dibond
58 x 48 cm / 23 x 19 in
Wendy White
Lens Flare (pixel heart/rainbow), 2021
Acrylic on canvas, wood, epoxy resin
Diameter: 58.5 cm / 23 in
Wendy White
Peace (In Tact), 2022
Epoxy resin, PVC
40.5 x 35.5 x 2.5 cm / 16 x 14 x 1 in
Wendy White
Sunrise (Dripping Pink), 2022
Acrylic on canvas, painted wood frame, steel, cotton rope, dibond
58 x 48 cm / 23 x 19 in
Wendy White
The Sun (Dripping), 2022
Acrylic on canvas, painted wood frame, steel, cotton rope, dibond
Diameter: 57 cm / 22 1/2 in
Wendy White
Pixel Heart (Rough), 2022
Epoxy resin, PVC
38 x 41 x 2.5 cm / 17 x 14 x 1 in
Wendy White
Cloud and Rainbow, 2017
Dibond, cotton rope
52 x 111.7 cm / 20 1/2 x 44 in
Edition 1 of 3
BORN
1971, Deep River, Connecticut, United States
SELECTED SOLO + TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS + INSTALLATIONS
2024
heart beats dust, Gaa Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2023
Interior Exotics, VAN HORN, Düsseldorf, Germany
Interior Exotics (The Talk), Le Bureau, Düsseldorf, Germany
2022
Sunset Drift, Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, MA, USA
Low Relief, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Soft Focus, galerie lange + pult, Zürich, Switzerland
2021
Low Pressure, Museum Goch, Germany
Mark and Phil, Denny Dimin, New York, NY, USA
Airlok or Gazing into the Void, with Julia Wachtel, Von Ammon Co, Washington DC, USA
2020
Suk it Kevin, New Release, New York, NY, USA
Peace/L♡ve, COUNTY, Palm Beach, FL, USA
Sea Foam (Convertible), solo booth, Shulamit Nazarian, The Armory Show, New York, NY
2019
Racetrack Playa, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2018
Natural Light, Andrew Rafacz, Chicago, IL, USA
Rainbow Bridge, Kaikai Kiki, curated by Takashi Murakami, Tokyo, Japan
American Idyll, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA, USA
Oil Slicks, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL, USA
Loves, Gallery 1600, SCAD Atlanta, GA , USA
2017
Kelly Girl, VAN HORN, Düsseldorf, Germany
Brian Calvin | Wendy White, Cabinet, Milan, Italy
Gypsy Wagon, with Justin Adian, CAPITAL, San Francisco, CA, USA
2016
Santa Cruz, Eric Firestone,, New York, NY, USA
2015
Skiing, Galerie Jérome Pauchant, Paris, France
Double Vanity, Sherrick & Paul, Nashville, TN, USA
12th Man, David Castillo, Miami, FL, USA
What a Letdown, solo booth, Rawson Projects, NADA Miami Beach, Miami, FL, USA
2014
El Campo, VAN HORN, Düsseldorf
2013
CURVA, M Building, Miami, FL, USA
Pick Up a Knock, Andrew Rafacz, Chicago, IL, USA
Wendy White, Maruani Noirhomme, Brussels, Belgium
Solo booth, Kustera Projects, UNTITLED Miami Beach, Miami, FL, USA
2012
Pix Vää, Leo Koenig, Inc., New York, NY, USA
En Asfalto, Galeria Moriarty, Madrid, Spain
Radio Lampor, VAN HORN, Düsseldorf, Germany
So Athletic, with Henning Strassburger), Kunstverein Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin, curated by Suzanne Prinz
Performing Painting, with José Parlá, curated by Melissa Messina and Isolde Brielmaier Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah, GA, USA
Solo booth, Galeria Moriarty, ARCO Madrid, Madrid, Spain
2011
6 Years/6 Works, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
2010
French Cuts, Andrew Rafacz, Chicago, IL, USA
Up w/Briquette, Leo Koenig, Inc., New York, NY, USA
2009
Feel Rabid or Not, Galeria Moriarty, Madrid, Spain
2008
Autokennel, Leo Koenig, Inc., New York, NY, USA
2006
Chunk Lite, Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA, USA
2006
Wendy White, Sixtyseven, New York, NY, USA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Hollywood Dream Bubble: Ed Ruscha’s Influence in Los Angeles and Beyond, The Hole, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2023
Dallas Art Fair, Gaa Gallery, Dallas, TX, USA
Resistance Training: Arts, Sports, and Civil Rights, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, MI, USA
2022
It Takes a Village, Library Street Collective, Detroit, MI, USA
SOWIESO (Anyhow), Omstand, Arnhem, Netherlands
10 Years, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2021
Fade to Fade, Library Street Collective, Detroit, MI, USA
EXPEDITION, curated by John Newsom, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, VT, USA
Coloring, UK Art Museum, Lexington, KY, USA
Una Farfalla Nello Spazio, Arte 92, Madrid, Spain
Fight Like a Girl, VAN HORN, Düsseldorf, Germany
100 Sculptures, Anonymous Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2021
Recent Acquisitions, Abroms-Engel Institute for Visual Arts, Birmingham, AL, USA
For Calder (in Motion), Launch F18, New York, NY, USA
Home and Away: Selections from Common Practice, Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2020
Hold on Tight, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2019
ACE: Art on Sports, Promise, and Selfhood, University at Albany Art Museum, Albany, NY, USA
Wide World of Sports, Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY, USA
Downtown Painting, curated by Alex Katz, Peter Freeman Inc., New York, NY, USA
Globe as a Palette: Contemporary Art from the Taguchi Art Collection, Hokkaido Obihiro Museum of Art, Obihiro; Kushiro Art Museum, Hokkaido; Hakodate Museum of Art, Hokkaido; Sapporo Art Museum, Japan
The Celebration of Painting, curated by Christina Kang, Sophis Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Notebook, curated by Joanne Greenbaum, 56 Henry, New York, NY, USA
Highs & Lows, curated by Justin Adian, Mast Books, New York, NY, USA
2018
The World’s Game: Fútbol and Contemporary Art, curated by Franklin Sirmans and Jennifer Ignacio, Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL, USA
BURNT, curated by Leo Fitzpatrick, Marlborough Contemporary, New York, NY, USA
The Strangeness Will Wear Off, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL, USA
100 Sculptures, curated by Joseph Ian Henrikson and Todd von Ammon, Anonymous Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
Grafik, curated by Ryan McGinness, Harper’s Books, East Hampton, NY, USA
Xeriscape, Library Street Collective, Detroit, MI, USA
Focus III: I’ll see it when I believe it; works in the private collection of Jack and Rebecca Drake, Abroms Engel
Institute for the Visual Arts, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, USA
2017
The Art Show: Art of the New Millenium in Taguchi Art Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan
No burden as heavy, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL, USA
Broken Language, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Man Alive, Maruani Mercier Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2016
Mount Analogue, curated by Neville Wakefield, Performance Ski, Aspen, CO, USA
Temporary Highs, curated by Lindsay Howard, bitforms, New York, NY, USA
2015
Full of Peril and Weirdness: Painting as a Universalism, M Woods, Beijing, China
Painting is Not Doomed to Repeat Itself, curated by John Yau, Hollis Taggart, New York, NY, USA
All Killer No Filler, Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY, USA
Outta Town Sh*t, curated by Nina Chanel Abney, Kravets & Wehby, New York, NY, USA
Taguchi Hiroshi Art Collection: A Walk around the Contemporary Art World after Paradigm Shift, The Museum of Fine Arts Gifu, Japan
Power Objects: The Rogers & Weisenbacher Collection, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI, USA
Any Given Sunday, Fine Arts Center Gallery, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA
2014
Fútbol: The Beautiful Game, curated by Franklin Sirmans, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Amerika, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL, USA
Thinking Through Painting, Royal Swedish Academy, Stockholm, Sweden
Go With the Flow, The Hole, New York, NY, USA
Frameshift, Denny Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Metabolic Bodies, David Castillo, Miami, FL, USA
2013
The Digital Divide, curated by Henning Strassburger, Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf, Germany
Seventh-Inning Stretch, curated by Carlo McCormick, Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, New York, NY, USA
All Fucking Summer, Gavlak, Palm Beach, FL, USA
XSTRACTION, The Hole, New York, NY, USA
After Hours 2: Murals on the Bowery, Art Production Fund, New York, NY, USA
2012
Hue & Cry, curated by Vladimir Restoin-Roitfeld, Space S2, Sotheby’s, New York, NY, USA
Idealizing the Imaginary: Invention and Illusion in Contemporary Painting, curated by Dick Goody, Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, MI, USA
2011
A Painting Show, Harris Lieberman, New York, NY, USA
Informal Relations, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IN, USA
2010
Third Thoughts, CCA Andratx, Mallorca; curated by Barry Schwabsky and Carol Szymanski
Graphic Abstraction, SCAD Hong Kong
I’ll Let You Be in my Dreams if I Can Be in Yours, Fredericks & Freiser, New York, NY, USA
Shape Language, Nicole Klagsbrun, New York, NY, USA
Borderland Abstraction, curated by Hesse McGraw, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE, USA
Vivid: Female Currents in Painting, curated by Janet Phelps, Schroeder Romero, New York, NY, USA
2009
Maximal Minimal, curated by Nini Bonavoglia, Primopiano, Lugano, Italy
Rattled by the Rush, Andrew Rafacz, Chicago, IL, USA
Mergers & Acquisitions, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA, USA
2008
Pure Optic Ray, Fred, Leipzig, Germany
Insideout, Galeria Moriarty, Madrid, Spain
2007
Late Liberties, curated by Augusto Arbizo, John Connelly Presents, New York, NY, USA
2006
Norf*kneasters Take Pluto, curated by Nicole Eisenman, Pluto, Brooklyn, New York, NY, USA
Twist it Twice, curated by Franklin Evans, Moti Hasson Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Twenty Eight Days, Wendy Cooper Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
2004
Too Few the Opportunities, curated by Josh Smith, So Many the Mistakes, Champion Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY, USA
PROJECTS + COMMISSIONS
2022
Commission, Raincloud(Neon Signs on Overcast Days), SCAD Lacoste, France
2021
Commission, Rainbow Drift, hand-painted mural, Kranzberg Arts Foundation, St. Louis, MO, USA
2019
Free Beer Tomorrow, UNTITLED VIP Lounge, Miami Beach, FL, USA
Body Shop, CLEA RSKY, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Commission, Rocket Mortgage Field House, Cleveland; Detroit Pistons Practice Facility, Detroit, MI, USA
Rainbow Bridge (Bifrost), site-specific painting, The Belt, Detroit, MI USA
2017
Commission, Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta, GA, USA
JEANS, Rawson Projects, New York, NY, USA
2016
OVERRIDE | A Billboard Project, presented by EXPO Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
No Pressure, site-specific installation, Drake One Fifty, Toronto, Canada
2015
Redidas®, Rawson Projects, New York, NY, USA
2014
We, Incubate Festival Arts Program, Tilburg, Netherlands
Madrid Me Mata, Arts & Leisure, New York, NY
2013
After Hours 2: Murals on the Bowery, Art Production Fund, New York, NY, USA
AWARDS, GRANTS, + FELLOWSHIPS
2019
Tieger Mentor in the Arts, Cornell University
2012
Painting Fellowship, NYFA
2008
Grant, Artists’ Fellowship, Inc.
2005
Grant, George & Helen Segal Foundation
2004
The Space Program, Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, NYC
2001
Leon Golub Scholarship, Rutgers University
EDUCATION
Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA - MFA, 2003
Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah, GA, USA - BFA, 1993
PUBLIC Collections
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, USA
Museum Goch, Germany
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, USA
Savannah College of Art & Design
Southern Poverty Law Center, Montgomery, AL, USA
Jiménez-Colón Collection, Puerto Rico
Takashi Murakami, Tokyo, Japan
Art Museum at the University of Kentucky, KY, USA
Taguchi Art Collection, Japan
UBS Art Collection, Zurich
ARCO Foundation, Madrid
Tulip Collection, UK
Progressive Art Collection
Saks Fifth Avenue
Red Bull North America
Detroit Institute of the Arts, Detroit, MI, USA
Shinola Hotel, Detroit, MI, USA
To commemorate the exhibition, we are releasing a limited edition catalogue. Please join us in the Tribeca gallery this Friday, June 28 from 5 - 7pm for a catalogue signing with the artist. We hope you can join us in celebrating the success of Wendy's exhibition.
Gaa Gallery is pleased to present Quaquaversal, a group exhibition featuring works by Alyssa Klauer, Jane Margarette, Dan Schein, Johanna Robinson, Johanna Seidel, Malaika Temba, and Wendy White. Opening July 14th with an opening reception from 6 - 8 pm, the exhibition will be on view at the gallery’s New York location until August 25.
For the 2023 edition of the Dallas Art Fair, Gaa Gallery is pleased to present new works by Wilder Alison, Jagoda Bednarsky, Autumn, Wallace, and Wendy White. The fair runs April 20 - 23, with an opening preview (by invitation only) Thursday, April 20, from 12 - 4 pm and public days Friday and Saturday, April 21 and 22 from 11 am - 7 pm and Sunday, April 23 from 11 am - 5 pm. The gallery's booth is #B12 and the fair will take place at Fashion Industry Gallery, 1807 Ross Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75201.
Gaa Gallery is pleased to present Sunset Drift, a solo exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by Wendy White. This will be White’s first solo exhibition with the gallery in Provincetown. Please join us at Gaa Gallery Provincetown for an opening reception from 6 - 8 pm on Friday, July 8.
