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GRIMM presents
Eric White | Bad Reception
27 Nov 2020 - 9 Jan 2021
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GRIMM is pleased to present Bad Reception, a presentation of new paintings by Eric White, coinciding with the exhibition in the gallery's Keizersgracht location in Amsterdam. White's new body of work transports viewers back to a nostalgic era, a time when television was a daily ritual and analogue TV sets were fixtures in every home. This series take shape around layers of staged imagery depicting moments of interaction between subjects on and off the television.
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Eric White has long been fascinated by cinema, particularly obscure films. The artist's starting point for each painting is a scene from a movie featuring a television set, ranging in styles and time periods dating from the 1940's to the 1980's. White manipulates and embellishes scenes to underscore their inherent artificiality so that layers within these paintings draw attention to themselves, deepening the viewer's perceptual vantage point.
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While these works recall a familiar sentimental past, the artist also embraces contradictory implications for the medium of television. This body of work includes two paintings featuring a newscaster delivering a report that speak to a time when the T.V. was a definitive and trusted source for Americans.
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Other scenes confront the viewer with video displays in control rooms, such as those used for surveillance. These implications point to the potentiality of the medium as a source of entertainment and information, as well as a tool for surveillance, manipulation, and misinformation. Indeed, the transmission of recorded images, whether through live feeds, or in the form of produced and edited into stories, is something that we increasingly rely on to order our every day.
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Magical horror films are a recurring source material for the artist, and he translates their psychically charged moments into the scenery of his paintings. Many of the screens appear irregular or distorted; forms fluctuate as the signal is caught wavering between channels, while others are inhabited by menacing or ambiguous characters.
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About the artist
Eric White was born in 1968 in Ann Arbor, MI (US) and currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA (US). He received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1990. He served as adjunct professor at the School of Visual Arts from 2006—2014. In 2010, White received a Painting Fellowship from the New York Foundation for Arts.
White’s work has been featured in exhibitions at, amongst others, the Laguna Art Museum, CA (US); The Long Beach Museum of Art in Los Angeles, CA (US); Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico City (MX); De Bond Museum in Brussels (BE); MACRO Museum in Rome (IT); and The American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, MD (US). His work has also been exhibited extensively in galleries around the world including Amsterdam (NL), Copenhagen (DK), Brussels (BE), New York, NY (US), Miami, FL (US), Hamburg (DE), Los Angeles, CA (US) and Paris (FR).
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