James White (artist)
James White (* 1967 in Tiverton ) is a British painter who lives and works in London .
Life
James White graduated from the Royal College of Art in London in 1991 with a Master of Arts. In 2006 he won the John Moores 24 Painting Prize.
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James White is known for his small to medium-sized black and white paintings, which are on wooden panels or aluminum honeycomb panels behind plexi boxes . White's photorealistic subjects are repeatedly hotel bathrooms or everyday objects, whereby he works on the shiny surfaces and sophisticated light and shadow situations. His depiction of the grain of wooden panels, storage surfaces made of marble, reflective mirrors, metal rods, refraction of light in water glasses, cardboard and cellophane foil, dull plastic or soft towels are impressive because of their materiality.
Many paintings contain mirrors and reflective surfaces, which open the narrow picture surface into another dimension and allow the viewer the illusion or a distorted idea of what lies outside the picture surface. This arouses associations with film and its techniques in the viewer: in cutaway shots, the camera fixes an object in a short sequence that is related to the main plot in order to change the atmosphere or the speed in the film. The action can continue outside the image section or a parallel action is introduced. This seems to be the case with White's excerpts, too, because the actual, perhaps dramatic action of his scenes takes place outside of the visible. It is up to the viewer to spin the space with his action and fill it with meaning.
Exhibitions
In addition to exhibitions in international galleries, James White's work has been shown at the Goss-Michael Foundation in Dallas, the Kunsthal Rotterdam , the Neues Museum Weserburg , the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London and the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.
Works in public collections
- Kistefos Museum, Oslo
- Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas
- Olbricht Collection , Essen / Berlin
- The Saatchi Collection , London
- Pinault Collection , Venice
literature
- Martin Herbert: James White: Paintings , Thames & Hudson, London 2011. ISBN 978-0-9563562-7-7
- James White: Doomed, exhibition catalog Max Wigram Gallery, London 2007
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | White, James |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tiverton |