Sitters | Russ White

The pictures in this exhibition are part photo, part collage, part drawing, and part painting — constructed images of constructed spaces. Likely strangers to most viewers, the sitters in each portrait are the artist’s friends and collaborators, professional models and interested acquaintances, everyday people rendered in their own moments of repose. 

This show marks a shift in White’s practice from drawing towards painting, so it’s fitting that we find these people in the studio, sitting under lights on the stage of a seamless backdrop. Still life informed this interest in place, and the sitters are often joined by plants in various states of abstraction. The balance between flatness and depth, detail and simplicity, and reality and construction animate these still life portraits, an ongoing series building on White's previous work in figure study.

Gallery Hours
January 13 – February 13
Monday & Wednesday 9am – 5pm; Tuesday & Thursday 8am – 4pm