New Work
In some paintings the single subject of flap, square, and rectangle is multiplied into a sequence. By grouping these same-but-different images horizontally, White encourages a reading of them as a sort of sentence. She develops this formal structure as a metaphor for language. In this process of serialization the images are given different inflections. In the painting entitled The Years on a Stage (1998) the artist creates a restrained drama of intervals and shapes. The structural logic of the intervals is the "grammar." It is as though the paintings return us to a state of natural wildness which precedes words...
White invites the viewer to respond to the boldness of these simple design decisions-to the division of the picture plane by extremely spares pictorial elements, placed with great care. The paintings are not epics or novels but are verses and notes.
Rosemary Noon, Director
Fine Arts Center
Regis College
The Years on a Stage, 7" x 32", oil on paperboard
Gosip, 7" x 19", oil on paperboard