END OF AN ERA, 2019
36 inches in diameter
PLA on panel
BLOCKBUSTER, 2019
48 inches in diameter
PLA on panel
A PLACE ON EARTH, 2019
48 inches in diameter
PLA on panel
White is a Seattle-based artist and the first in his family to complete four years of professional training, currently using PLA to create his ‘limited edition’ objects and lustful paintings. Portraits of digital intimacy, nostalgic memorabilia, and desire in excess, coalesce to form White’s identity in his sculptural paintings, themselves meticulously spun from common plastic. They disrupt the hierarchy of status and its symbols by placing trivial souvenirs and accoutrements in luxurious environments and vice versa. His process requires repetitive acts with attention to detail to craft a visually lush, ornate surface. Drawings, stickers, graffiti, and other gestural marks lie on the surface of the selfie-capturing mirrors that begin to act as a facade, and barrier between the viewer and subject, prescribing a narrative for their particular situation. Clouding our perception, he addresses the way in which we perceive and present ourselves and the fallacies in representation through digital platforms.
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