Wendy White b. 1971

For Art Basel OVR: Miami Beach, Wendy White is debuting a new series of paintings that feature her iconic graphic emblems, gestural marks and sculptural paintings. Following a mid-career retrospective at Museum Goch in Germany, White was inspired by the relationship between her early gestural works and her recent shaped paintings. For this new series, White combines abstract, atmospheric backgrounds of earlier paintings with new materials such as black Dibond framing devices and suspended sculptures. MoMA’s recent Alexander Calder exhibition, Modern from the Start, also served as the impetus for White’s newly developed works. Calling upon Calder’s prototypical works from the late-1930s, White’s practice teases the parameters of foreground and background by suspending Dibond sculptures in front of her atmospheric paintings. The cantilever positioning in the work intensifies the competing focal points between stark-black sculptural objects and the numinous paintings that support them.