Pink 2, 2010
A photograph of mine from the Domestic series.
Edmund X White – Pink 2
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Edmund X White – Ceiling
Ceiling, 2010
This is a photograph of mine that will be featured in the group show Color at Peanut Gallery, Chicago, August 27 2010
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Olaf Breuning – Home 2
I saw Olaf Breuning at the Whitney Biennial 2008
Describing Olaf Breuning’s work is something of a fool’s errand. Inevitably one is reduced to paltry terms such as “eclectic” or “wide ranging,” and most attempts to get below the surface of it are met with the feints and parries of an aesthetic sensibility that is ever directing one back out at the world with all of its humor and absurdity. Refreshingly, one gets the sense that none of it is meant as a prop for “Olaf Breuning, the Artist.” The photographs, sculptures, drawings, videos and installations—these are simply what the artist does. For Breuning, it is not art as life, nor art into life, nor even life as art, but rather perhaps the more simple and direct equation: art = life.
From Museo Interview
Jared Sperling – Untitled (Flowers)
Untitled (Flowers), 2005
My wife bought this painting from Jared Sperling in 2005. Here is an album of his paintings on Facebook.
Sarah Supplee – Approach Route 495
Approach Route 495, 1977
I saw Sarah Supplee at DeCordova in 2003
There is a quote in her artist file about the 495 piece:“The most significant landscape experience that most of us have today is on the highway. The statements to be made by painting the highway are varied and striking; the fear of environmental disaster, our freedom fantasies, our ego involvement with the car and land, the erotic content of the experience, the romance of light and space. I find myself trying to pin down one moment in time and space, to capture the strangeness of reality cloaked in familiarity; that one time that gets at the strangeness of the real without, in any way, distorting or interpreting it.”
There are also essays on her work in “Essays on Women Artists, The Most Excellent, Book Two” by Liana Cheney, and an article about her painting in American Artist, February 1990, vol. 54, issue S71.
Information from the curators at DeCordova
Edmund X White – 7/20/2010
7/20/2010, 2010
This is a drawing of mine from the works on paper series. The series is about spontaneous emotional and abstract representations of self.
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Dante Marioni – Vessel Display
Vessel Display: blue, yellow, orange, 2003
I saw Dante Marioni at Ken Saunders Gallery, Chicago, August 2010
What is ultimately mainstream about Marioni and his work, however, is that he is, yes, his own gaffer and therefore the artist/maker. He is, however, the on-center glassblower personified. That kind of precise glassblowing is required of his work and vice versa. His objects are as much about on-center glassblowing as they are about the vessel form, and less about glass in the manner of Chihuly. At first glance, it is paradoxical that such hands-on making on the part of Marioni should result in such cool and apparently impersonal art, whereas the Chihuly teams produce huge amounts of what looks like personal expression. If it looks like personal expression is it such? If it doesn’t, can it be such anyway? Isn’t cool a style? When you look at a Marioni you are forced to examine what self expression, and even emotion, means. In both cases, we are confronting aspects of the beautiful.
From Marioni Magic by John Perreault, Glass Magazine
Edmund X White – Orrington
Orrington, 2010
This is a painting of mine that I actually started in 2004 (and stretched the canvas for in 2002). I’m glad to see it completed.
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Something Old and Blue – Leeah Joo
Something Old and Blue, 2010
I saw Leeah Joo at Andrew Bae Gallery, Chicago, August 2010
Born in 1971 in Seoul, South Korea, Leeah was raised by a sculptor father and an illustrator mother. At age 11, she immigrated to the U.S. with her family to settle in Indianapolis.
Since finishing her education in 1996, she has exhibited throughout the country and has taught drawing and painting at the University of New Haven and the Kansas City Art Institute.
She currently resides in Connecticut with her husband and children.
From Artist Bio
Edmund X White Showing at Peanut Gallery Chicago