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Eric White
Monaural, Frans Halsstraat 26, Amsterdam (NL), Other locations, 29 April - 1 June 2016

Eric White: Monaural

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Works
  • Eric White The Köln Concert, 2011 Oil on panel 30.5 x 30.5 cm | 12 x 12 in
    Eric White
    The Köln Concert, 2011
    Oil on panel
    30.5 x 30.5 cm | 12 x 12 in
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  • Eric White Me Myself An Eye, 2013 Oil on panel 30.5 x 30.5 cm | 12 x 12 in
    Eric White
    Me Myself An Eye, 2013
    Oil on panel
    30.5 x 30.5 cm | 12 x 12 in
  • Eric White The Beatles, 2016 Oil on panel 152.4 x 304.8 cm | 60 x 120 in
    Eric White
    The Beatles, 2016
    Oil on panel
    152.4 x 304.8 cm | 60 x 120 in
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  • Eric White On The Beach, 2015 Oil on panel 30.5 x 30.5 cm | 12 x 12 in
    Eric White
    On The Beach, 2015
    Oil on panel
    30.5 x 30.5 cm | 12 x 12 in
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  • Eric White Julie Is Her Name LP, 2016 Oil on panel 152.4 x 152.4 cm | 60 x 60 in
    Eric White
    Julie Is Her Name LP, 2016
    Oil on panel
    152.4 x 152.4 cm | 60 x 60 in
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  • Eric White In a Silent Way, 2016 Oil on panel 30.5 x 30.5 cm | 12 x 12 in
    Eric White
    In a Silent Way, 2016
    Oil on panel
    30.5 x 30.5 cm | 12 x 12 in
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  • Eric White Françoise Hardy, 2011 Oil on panel 30.5 x 30.5 cm | 12 x 12 in
    Eric White
    Françoise Hardy, 2011
    Oil on panel
    30.5 x 30.5 cm | 12 x 12 in
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  • Eric White Rom Com, 2013 Oil on canvas 243.8 x 106.7 cm | 96 x 42 in
    Eric White
    Rom Com, 2013
    Oil on canvas
    243.8 x 106.7 cm | 96 x 42 in
  • Eric White Mingus, 2016 Oil on canvas, rolled 182.9 x 182.9 cm | 72 x 72 in
    Eric White
    Mingus, 2016
    Oil on canvas, rolled
    182.9 x 182.9 cm | 72 x 72 in
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  • Eric White Heavy Redaction, 2016 400 8-track tapes, stickers, magnets 269.2 x 393.7 x 2.5 cm | 106 x 155 x 1 in
    Eric White
    Heavy Redaction, 2016
    400 8-track tapes, stickers, magnets
    269.2 x 393.7 x 2.5 cm | 106 x 155 x 1 in
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  • Eric White Never Mind The Bollocks, 2016 Oil on panel 152.4 x 152.4 cm | 60 x 60 in
    Eric White
    Never Mind The Bollocks, 2016
    Oil on panel
    152.4 x 152.4 cm | 60 x 60 in
  • Eric White Two Pianos & Twenty Voices, 2016 Oil on panel 30.5 x 30.5 cm | 12 x 12 in
    Eric White
    Two Pianos & Twenty Voices, 2016
    Oil on panel
    30.5 x 30.5 cm | 12 x 12 in
  • Eric White The Mills Bros, 2016 Oil on panel 30.5 x 30.5 cm 12 x 12 in
    Eric White
    The Mills Bros, 2016
    Oil on panel
    30.5 x 30.5 cm
    12 x 12 in
  • Eric White Sings The Blues LP, 2016 Oil on panel 152.4 x 152.4 cm | 60 x 60 in
    Eric White
    Sings The Blues LP, 2016
    Oil on panel
    152.4 x 152.4 cm | 60 x 60 in
Installation Views
  • Eric White Monaural Installation View Grimm 01
  • Eric White Monaural Installation View Grimm 02
  • Eric White Monaural Installation View Grimm 07
  • Eric White Monaural Installation View Grimm 04
  • Eric White Monaural Installation View Grimm 09
  • Eric White Monaural Installation View Grimm 06
  • Eric White Monaural Installation View Grimm 05
  • Eric White Monaural Installation View Grimm 08
  • Eric White Monaural Installation View Grimm 03
Press
  • Eric White "Monaural" @ GRIMM, Amsterdam

    Juxtapoz, May 4, 2016
Press release
Eric White, Monaural
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It is with great pleasure that we announce the first solo exhibition by Eric White (US, 1968) with the gallery in Amsterdam.

Eric White’s paintings reference 20th century film, music and pop culture backed by consummate draftsmanship and painterly finesse to subvert and recode the dominant narratives of contemporary society. White’s paintings are constructed from elements of our collective consciousness, overflowing with an entropic visual overload.

For this solo exhibition White presents a new body of work that is a tribute to music and its lost forms, such as the LP and 8-track tape. A group of new paintings focuses on famous album covers, the recognition of their design is shared by many of us on an unspoken visceral level. We know these covers, always present in our visual memory, they are an expression of a period or particular time in our lives, but are we actually perceiving them anymore? White mixes up both the original content as well as the meaning of these images and forces us to look and interpret them again. As writer Mike Newton states in his essay about the LP paintings, “These are exercises in both loving fidelity to their widely revered sources, and cheeky impertinence in the face of fading cultural legacies.”

A large freestanding work is based on the legendary ‘White Album’ aptly titled The Beatles (2016). It is a centerpiece of the exhibition. White recre- ated the gatefold record as a sculpture painting five times the scale of the original, a monument to music. The Beatles’ portraits that are featured “As a movie is an invented reality, perhaps our reality is some sort of illusory projection of consciousness” in the original album design are re-constructed using elements from well known Richard Hamil- ton paintings, the original artist who designed the album, and the song titles have been re-shuffled into bizarre anagrams. Painted in oil on panel, this work resonates with wit while flaunting amazing artistic skills.

Another central work is titled Mingus! (2016) a painting that features a portrait of the jazz com- poser and bassist surrounded by his peers and influencers on a surreal 1930’s Busby Berkeley surreal stage set. The exhibition also includes installations constructed from 8-track tapes with modified labels; while vinyl is still around and making a come-back of sorts, the 8-track is officially dead forever. An installation of these tapes, all featuring central female figures is shaped into a massive pyramid symbolizing the power of music and memorializing a forgotten past. The 8-track installation is related to the album covers, is really an extension of it, but the formal difference is that these covers are created digitally, from a selection of actual vintage album covers with all text and extraneous elements re- dacted. For White these tapes connote a particular era in American culture, and a specific period of his childhood, underlining a certain nostalgic longing and sense of comfort.

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  • Eric White "Monaural" @ GRIMM, Amsterdam Press

    Eric White "Monaural" @ GRIMM, Amsterdam

    Juxtapoz May 4, 2016
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