PAE WHITE

Pae White creates aseamless world where she is constantly discovering innovative ways totransform materials and objects. She has explained, “For the lastseveral years, my practice has focused on an exploration of theneglected, the forgotten, the spaces between things, even the thingsbetween things. I am equally drawn to the temporary, the fleeting, tothe ephemera of everyday life. My work has attempted to subvert theviewer’s expected relationship to an everyday object, nudging them offbalance, encouraging a deeper look.” By re-creating their purpose andmeaning, White forces the viewer to see these usual objects in adifferent light.

“There is nothing visually raw or neutral aboutPae White’s aesthetic: colors are dazzling, words are set inidiosyncratic typefaces, and the materials she favors are delicate andlush. Even when she is working minimally, the effect is ravishing and attimes hallucinatory.” -Alex Farquharson

Pae White’s uniqueability to transform the generally unnoticed will only be magnified bythis exhibition. Following her major exhibitions at the Power Plant inToronto and SITE Santa Fe, White once again gives the viewer aheightened sense of site and context. Her new works ignore thetraditional boundaries applied to fine art while also engaging theviewer to reexamine the familiar.

Pae White lives and works inLos Angeles. She has exhibited nationally and internationally in majorexhibitions: Sculpture Projekte Munster, 2007; the 53rd InternationalArt Exhibition at the Venice Biennale, 2009; the Whitney Biennial, NewYork, 2010; the Tate Modern, London; as well as, The Art Institute,Chicago, 2011; MoMA, New York; The Solomon Guggenheim Museum, New York;Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, The Hammer Museum, LosAngeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; LACMA, Los Angeles;Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC. Pae White has wonnumerous commissions including the award- winning stage curtain for theNew Opera House in Oslo, Norway, Europeʼs largest neon installation inLondonʼs Gloucester Road underground station, The Tom BradleyInternational extension and Berlin Brandenburg airport.