White Light/White Heat" is a title borrowed from the Velvet Underground’s considerably influential second album. When broken down white light describes a light that is perceived without color, whilst white heat is the effect of an intense excitement, or hotness, causing a substance to appear white.

All works in the exhibition were selected to represent the subtraction and addition process when the use of the color white is applied to image making. The show brings together artists including Guy Michael Davis (Columbs, OH), Henna-Riikka Halonen (London, UK), Gabrielle Jennings (Los Angeles, CA), Alexander Kantarovsky (New York, NY), Kika Karadi (New York, NY), Melora Kuhn (New York, NY), and Jessica Williams (New York, NY), who have all achieved thorough international attention. 

Because of its indefinite range of meaning, white has long been cautiously handled in the realm of fine art.  "White Light/White Heat" is meant to test white’s contemporary conceptual limits. Several artists turn what is commonly known as the absence of color into the primary subject matter, pushing it to the forefront in an intriguing reversal of roles. The focus is to include a keen selection of contemporary artists exhibiting a deliberate and successful use of the color white within a work of art, whether for aesthetic, conceptual, or cultural meanings.

Curator(s)
Colleen Grennan