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Pae White’s prolific and diverse oeuvre focuses on the forgotten and ephemeral qualities of everyday life. Exploring different material forms and contexts, White’s practice is known for blurring the traditional and often nebulous boundaries between the fine and applied arts, architecture and design. Whether in the form of sculpture, site-specific installations, tapestries, animation, or painting, White’s works subverts viewers’ expected relationship to familiar objects, processes and spaces.
Pae White (b. 1963 in Pasadena, CA) has been the subject of solo exhibitions at museums and institutions worldwide including at STPI, Singapore (2021); San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose (2019), Saarlandmuseum, Saarbrücken (2017), MAK, Vienna (2013); Langen Foundation, Düsseldorf (2013); South London Gallery, London (2013); The Power Plant, Toronto (2011); SITE, Santa Fe (2011); The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (2011); St Louis Art Museum, St Louis (2010); 53rd Venice Biennale, Venice (2009); Skulpturprojekte, Münster (2007); Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. (2007); Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester (2006) and Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2004). She has created public commissions at Swiss Re Klubhaus, Zurich (2018-2020); Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice (2017); Broadway Pier, San Diego (2014) and Berlin-Brandenburg Airport, Berlin (2012), among others. Her work is included in prominent collections such as the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; Tate Modern, London; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Art Institute of Chicago; and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Pae White lives and works in Los Angeles and Sonoma County, California.
Periodically, the Department of Prints and Illustrated Books embarks on a seemingly straightforward project: to present an exhibition reflecting on the state of contemporary printmaking. This catalog shows images from the work in the exhibition as well as several interviews, including Rirkrit Tiravanija.
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN: 978-0-87070-825-1
White's 2010 solo show at The Power Plant, 'Pae White: Material Mutters,' surveys her work from the past five years in a range of media, with a focus on her monumental tapestries. The exhibition and catalogue feature the new work Sea Beast (2010), which was commissioned by The Power Plant as a part of our Annual Commissioning Program begun in 2006. Sea Beast is a large-scale tapestry featuring an image of a found macrame wall hanging, which signals a new visual direction in her work - its source is a three-dimensional scan of a woven form that includes mussel shells, a price tag and tassels. Blown up and transformed, its own weave interpreted within another, the macrame simultaneously escapes and retains the sub-cultural associations that previously defined it.
This eighty-page hardcover catalogue is designed by White and Juliette Bellocq who previously collaborated with the artist on her catalogue, Pae White: Lisa Bright and Dark. The catalogue features an overview of White's exhibition with a specific focus on Sea Beast. Along with high-resolution images of this and past exhibitions, this catalogue includes a visual overview of White's ever-evolving practice, and a cloth cover with a foil treatment that reflects the pattern White produced for her piece, Future Fabric (2010). Alongside the unique cover and stunning images is an insightful essay by German professor, art historian, art critic, and curator Oliver Zybok, as well as an incisive and frenetic take on White's tapestries by writer Susan Emerling.
Pae White: Material Mutters
Introduction by: Gregory Burke
Essays by: Susan Emerling and Oliver Zybok
Publisher: The Power Plant, Toronto, ON, 2010
Hard cover, 80 pages, full colour
ISBN: 978-1-894212-32-8
Pae White
Spacemanship
The book details Pae White’s largest production in Germany to date to show how the artist turns rooms into total works of art: Spacemanship is an installation and a quote from her so-called “Supergraphics,” façade designs with which she explored the utopian planned community Sea Ranch, California, in a comprehensive installation. In addition to this in-situ piece, White also presented three large mobiles and a 128-foot-long tapestry. Documenting these works, the book illustrates her imposing practice. With essays by Roland Mönig and Ernest W. Uthemann as well as a conversation between Pae White and Daniel Berndt. Published by Distanz.
ISBN 978-3-95476-347-4
108 pages, 55 color images, Hardcover