Mark White paints with vigor and reverence, creating glimpses of natural environments in which spontaneity is balanced by pervasive calm. With the sensitivity of a poet, White manifests both densely abstracted and wholly truthful visions of life, in which recognizable entities recede or dissolve into mesmerizing color. For White, painting offers an intimate communion with time and space, a respite from the world of structure and fixed space. Accordingly, he seems to conduct a study of the elements themselves, lifting a curtain to reveal the world’s most essential and enduring qualities. In his paintings, suggestion trumps definition, heightening our curiosity and our capacity for individual interpretation.

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His paintings are profoundly textural, despite their slick surfaces. They feel improvised and spontaneous—qualities which deepen the viewer’s sense that White is concerned less with classical narratives and painting practices than with the immediate fact and feel of a moment or  landscape. The real and the ideal are bewitching companions in paintings where marks and gestures predominate. 

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White’s unforced approach to painting coexists with his long history as a sculptor: for decades, he has crafted complex kinetic metal sculptures whose moving elements depend on carefully calibrated studies of material and environment. White has applied this steady focus to paintings in which lush, nuanced surfaces abound with suggestion and feeling.

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Soft, organic colors ripple across White’s compositions, forming multicolored wonderlands of pure, expressive color. An almost preternatural incandescence seems to emanate from deep within the surface of White’s paintings, and perhaps this quality is key to understanding our response to them; they strike an immediately intimate chord, despite their initial, firmly non-objective premise.

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