Popping Bubbles and Kicking Pedestals, the Wayne White Way
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About Wayne White
A former set and character designer for the television show Pee-wee’s Playhouse, cartoonist and painter Wayne White produces ironic, often subversive imagery. White is best known for his word paintings composed of oversized, three-dimensional text painted onto cheap landscape paintings he finds at thrift stores and markets, a practice that has drawn comparisons to Ed Ruscha. Slogans and phrases such as “Fanfuckintastic” populate White’s images. He has also created grotesque, cartoonish sculptures of famous people’s heads, such as Lyndon B. Johnson, as well as puppets and music videos.
American, b. 1957, Chattanooga, Tennessee, based in Los Angeles, California
Exhibition Highlights
2016
2016
2015
Western Project,
Los Angeles, 2014
Western Project,
Los Angeles, Solo Shows
2016
2014
New York,
Group Shows
2017
New York,
2017
New York,
2017
2016
New York,
2016
2015
Western Project,
Los Angeles, 2014
Western Project,
Los Angeles, 2014
