KIT WHITE Public Installation, Via Quadronno, 25 East 73, NY
Kit White and nona faustine discuss their exhibition:"Shadowboxing"
FreedmanArt was pleased to host The Princeton Women's Network for a talk with Nona Faustine and Kit White
This was a special event for the Princeton Women’s Network: “Shadowboxing” an exhibition that uniquely pairs the new works of photographer Nona Faustine and painter Kit White. Organized by Lisa A. Banner, ‘85. Artists will be in attendance for intimate discussion and walk-through on Tuesday, December 17 at 6:30pm.
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Kit White (left) and Nona Faustine (right) after the opening of their collaborative exhibition called “SHADOWBOXING” on view at FreedmanArt through March 2020.
FreedmanArt opens an exhibition of new paintings by Kit White
ArtDaily
April 23 2019
NEW YORK, NY.- FreedmanArt is presenting Walls and Occupied Spaces, new paintings by Kit White, opening April 16, 2019. The spaces in these paintings exist as metaphorical landscapes occupied by linear structures derived from both the organic and inorganic. Kit White's new work incorporates photographic images into his paintings as poignant backdrops to abstract lines. The photograph provides a material, worldly context for the drawing, which, though abstract, represents the real as an analog mark. This new series of works seek out images of land that have been scarred by conflict. Initially, the images were of contested spaces of what we have traditionally referred to as the Middle East, places where competing claims to land have led to war-like confrontations. Conflicts of all kinds, violent and non-violent, surround us and announce themselves through walls, barriers, and borders. These collisions, not always physical, are manifestations of the fraught politics of occupation, both actual and symbolic. The artist also found himself drawn to the photographs of Matthew Brady (1822 - 1896) and others of the Civil War, and meditating on the figurative wall born of that conflict, a psychological division that continues to separate us. view as [pdf]
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Kit White in Conversation with Jason Stopa
FreedmanArt
April 20, 2019
As part of the Madison Avenue Gallery Walk presented by ARTnews, FreedmanArt is pleased to invite you to:
Kit White in Conversation with Jason Stopa
Saturday, April 27, Noon
"Landscape is more than the picturesque and the scenic. It articulates our collective sense of self. The spaces it describes are not merely physical, but psychological and cultural. It is a complex conflation of ambitions, affinities, identities and mythologies. Landscape is, by its very nature, political." - Kit White, 2019
Kit White Artist Statement: Walls and Occupied Spaces
March 2019
Over the years, I have approached the space of my paintings as metaphorical landscapes. They have horizons and are occupied by linear elements that act as surrogates for structures both organic and inorganic. But because paintings are wholly created spaces, the parameters by which they are judged are formal in nature. All content reaches the viewer through a formal lens. Yet, it is the other lens, the photographic lens, through which we now receive most of our knowledge of the world and contextualizes most of what we know of it. (download PDF to read full statement)
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PRESS RELEASE: Kit White Walls & Occupied Spaces
Kit White: Walls & Occupied Spaces
FreedmanArt is very pleased to present Walls and Occupied Spaces, new paintings by Kit White, opening April 16, 2019. The spaces in these paintings exist as metaphorical landscapes occupied by linear structures derived from both the organic and inorganic. Kit White’s new work incorporates photographic images into his paintings as poignant backdrops to abstract lines. The photograph provides a material, worldly context for the drawing, which, though abstract, represents the real as an analog mark. This new series of works seek out images of land that have been scarred by conflict. Initially, the images were of contested spaces of what we have traditionally referred to as the Middle East, places where competing claims to land have led to war-like confrontations. Conflicts of all kinds, violent and non-violent, surround us and announce themselves through walls, barriers, and borders. These collisions, not always physical, are manifestations of the fraught politics of occupation, both actual and symbolic. The artist also found himself drawn to the photographs of Matthew Brady (1822 – 1896) and others of the Civil War, and meditating on the figurative wall born of that conflict, a psychological division that continues to separate us. Kit White studied at Harvard University, A.B. Fine Arts, Cum Laude, and had his first solo exhibition with Betty Parsons at Parsons/Dreyfuss Gallery in 1977. His work has been the subject of more than twenty- five solo exhibitions in galleries and Museums. He received a Louis Comfort Tiffany Award for painting and was a professor of painting for twenty-one years at Pratt Institute. His work is the subject of a monograph by Carter Ratcliff, Line Into Form, and Kit is the author of the international best-selling book 101 Things To Learn In Art School, published by MIT Press. A large selection of the original drawings from this book are in the collection of the Luther W. Brady Art Gallery at the Corcoran School of Art and Design, George Washington University. FreedmanArt established in 2011, serves to educate the public with an active exhibition program, guided by invitational artist exhibitions and special project conceptions both historical and new.
Kit White at Freedman Art and the Institute of Fine Arts (NYU)
Arte Fuse
by Jonathan Goodman
June 15, 2017
Kit White, a painter of indisputably lyric accomplishment, is currently showing at two venues: FreedmanArt and the Institute of Fine Arts. Kit White, a painter of indisputably lyric accomplishment, is currently showing at two venues: FreedmanArt and the Institute of Fine Arts. White, now a mature artist is a long resident of New York City, where he has practiced a distinctive form of poetic suggestion, in which rickety, skeletal structures occupy the center of the composition, whose surrounds indicate a lonely landscape. Interestingly, though, his efforts do not necessarily derive from the New York School—even though White showed twice with Betty Parsons, a major gallerist of the movement, in the late 1970s. Certainly, he recognizes the fact that the abstract artists working shortly before him filled their paintings with inchoate, nonobjective form, intending to portray the strong emotion resulting from that form. But White is looking not so much for an expressionist intensity as he is interested in communicating a view that derives from a philosophical outlook and earlier history. A reader of contemporary poetry as well as a former student of Latin and Greek, White recognizes a time when culture was slower—a time when the act of painting was mediated by a knowledge of what preceded it, and when poetry was actually read.
Kit White: The Nature of this Place
FreedmanArt
Press Release
Opening Tuesday March 21, 2017
FreedmanArt is pleased to present The Nature of This Place, an exhibition of paintings by Kit White, opening Tuesday, March 21, 2017. From 5:30pm to 7:30pm, FreedmanArt will host a reception and a book signing with the artist to celebrate the release of the new monograph by Carter Ratcliff, Kit White: Line Into Form.
New Exhibition: "Art in the Making" opening Thursday, October 30
FreedmanArt
Opening Thursday, October 30
Reception from 6-8:30pm
FreedmanArt is pleased to present Art in the Making; an exhibition honoring art, the history of whose making is part of its meaning, with over twenty artists included. Art in the Making opens Thursday, October 30. In a time of constant change and advances in the methods of “making,” this exhibition hopes to provide a lens into time-honored art institutions, as triggered by the overlapping of the 50th anniversary of the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting & Sculpture, and the 140th anniversary of The Art Students League of New York. This brings us to appreciate original and early approaches to teaching, learning, and making; as relevant today as in decades and centuries gone by.