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WHITNEY BEDFORD

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9 September - 16 October
  • Whitney Bedford

    9 September - 16 October

  • Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, "Whitney Bedford," 9 September - 16 October 2021. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, "Whitney Bedford," 9 September - 16 October 2021. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, "Whitney Bedford," 9 September - 16 October 2021. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, "Whitney Bedford," 9 September - 16 October 2021. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, "Whitney Bedford," 9 September - 16 October 2021. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).

    Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, "Whitney Bedford," 9 September - 16 October 2021.

  • NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MILES McENERY GALLERY is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent paintings by Whitney Bedford. The artist’s inaugural exhibition at the gallery will open 9 September at 520 West 21st Street and remain on view through 16 October 2021. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated publication featuring an essay by Barry Schwabsky.

  • 'Bedford’s recent “Veduta” paintings share a three-layered structure that is clear and readily described, though the effects the artist produces...

    WHITNEY BEDFORD

    Veduta (Avery Tree), 2020

    Ink and oil on linen on hybrid panel

    24 3/8 x 31 1/2 inches

    61.9 x 80 cm

    "Bedford’s recent “Veduta” paintings share a three-layered structure that is clear and readily described, though the effects the artist produces within it are varied and sometimes disorienting. Straight, monochromatic lines divide the canvas into three, or sometimes four, zones of unequal size, their geometry implying an interior space with a corner, or sometimes two corners. The zone at the bottom of the canvas is painted in a different single color, opaque and uninflected: a floor plane. The landscape image, rendered in a different, historically specific style in each painting, has been made synonymous with the plane of the painting (and not with the implied planes of the imagined “walls”). And finally—and perhaps most puzzling—each painting includes a second representation of “nature,” though in a distinctly abstract way."

    - Barry Schwabsky, "Whitney Bedford's Relocations"

    • Whitney Bedford Veduta (Amiet Baumgarten), 2021 Ink and oil on linen on hybrid panel 45 x 35 inches 114.3 x 88.9 cm
      Whitney Bedford
      Veduta (Amiet Baumgarten), 2021
      Ink and oil on linen on hybrid panel
      45 x 35 inches
      114.3 x 88.9 cm
    • Whitney Bedford Veduta (Bonnard Normandy), 2021 Ink and oil on linen on hybrid panel 18 x 24 inches 45.7 x 61 cm
      Whitney Bedford
      Veduta (Bonnard Normandy), 2021
      Ink and oil on linen on hybrid panel
      18 x 24 inches
      45.7 x 61 cm
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  • Whitney Bedford
    Veduta (Bonnard Summer), 2021
    Ink and oil on linen on hybrid panel
    79 1/2 x 100 inches
    201.9 x 254 cm
  • Whitney Bedford Studio, 2021, Santa Monica, California
    Whitney Bedford Studio, 2021, Santa Monica, California

    Whitney Bedford Studio, 2021, Santa Monica, California

    • Whitney Bedford Veduta (Bruegel), 2021 Ink and oil on linen on hybrid panel 18 x 24 inches 45.7 x 61 cm
      Whitney Bedford
      Veduta (Bruegel), 2021
      Ink and oil on linen on hybrid panel
      18 x 24 inches
      45.7 x 61 cm
    • Whitney Bedford Veduta (Burchfield Dream), 2021 Ink and oil on linen on hybrid panel 32 1/2 x 39 3/4 inches 82.6 x 101 cm
      Whitney Bedford
      Veduta (Burchfield Dream), 2021
      Ink and oil on linen on hybrid panel
      32 1/2 x 39 3/4 inches
      82.6 x 101 cm
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  • Whitney Bedford
    Veduta (Friedrich Summer), 2021
    Ink and oil on linen on hybrid panel
    72 x 120 inches
    182.9 x 304.8 cm
  • "I consider my work driven by conceptuality and the impetus of art history on memory and the present."

     

    - Whitney Bedford

    • Whitney Bedford Veduta (de Stael Landscape), 2021 Ink and oil on linen on hybrid panel 21 1/4 x 29 7/8 inches 54 x 75.9 cm
      Whitney Bedford
      Veduta (de Stael Landscape), 2021
      Ink and oil on linen on hybrid panel
      21 1/4 x 29 7/8 inches
      54 x 75.9 cm
    • Whitney Bedford Veduta (Gauguin Coming and Going), 2021 Ink and oil on linen on hybrid panel 28 1/2 x 36 inches 72.4 x 91.4 cm
      Whitney Bedford
      Veduta (Gauguin Coming and Going), 2021
      Ink and oil on linen on hybrid panel
      28 1/2 x 36 inches
      72.4 x 91.4 cm
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  • 'To appreciate Bedford’s “Veduta” paintings, it is not necessary to compare them against their sources. But doing so, I’ve found,...

    WHITNEY BEDFORD

    Veduta (Matisse Bois), 2021

    Ink and oil on linen on hybrid panel

    32 x 40 inches

    81.3 x 101.6 cm

    "To appreciate Bedford’s “Veduta” paintings, it is not necessary to compare them against their sources. But doing so, I’ve found, does enable a deeper appreciation of how, precisely, her relocation of existing painting strategies enables a dialectical viewpoint on them, one that sees them both as distant—products and symptoms of other times—and as full of possibility for the present."

    - Barry Schwabsky, "Whitney Bedford's Relocations"

    • Whitney Bedford Veduta (Munch Field), 2021 Ink and oil on linen on hybrid panel 26 x 35 inches 66 x 88.9 cm
      Whitney Bedford
      Veduta (Munch Field), 2021
      Ink and oil on linen on hybrid panel
      26 x 35 inches
      66 x 88.9 cm
    • Whitney Bedford Veduta (Rothko), 2021 Ink and oil on linen on hybrid panel 59 x 46 inches 149.9 x 116.8 cm
      Whitney Bedford
      Veduta (Rothko), 2021
      Ink and oil on linen on hybrid panel
      59 x 46 inches
      149.9 x 116.8 cm
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  • 'Each painting includes silhouetted images—again monochromatic though often with added linear markings—of trees or shrubs. In some cases, these—unlike the...

    WHITNEY BEDFORD

    Veduta (Rousseau Spring), 2021

    Ink and oil on linen on hybrid panel

    31 x 49 inches

    78.7 x 124.5 cm

    "Each painting includes silhouetted images—again monochromatic though often with added linear markings—of trees or shrubs. In some cases, these—unlike the more elaborate landscape imagery—do follow the angled perspectival planes of the imaginary room’s walls. In others, they parallel the plane of the painting surface itself, in which case, intersecting the bottom of the canvas, they represent a plane between the viewer and everything else seen in the painting—an extreme foreground."

    - Barry Schwabsky, "Whitney Bedford's Relocations"

  • 'When did it become possible and interesting for a painter to represent other painters’ styles of painting in his or...
    Whitney Bedford
    Veduta (Storm), 2021
    Ink and oil on linen on hybrid panel
    22 x 26 inches
    55.9 x 66 cm

    "When did it become possible and interesting for a painter to represent other painters’ styles of painting in his or her own paintings? Maybe it began with Francis Picabia. In Bedford’s paintings, I see the citations of Pierre Bonnard or Paul Gauguin, Milton Avery or Charles Burchfield as neither parodic nor reverent, neither nostalgic nor critical. And they are not copies, but free inventions of Bedford’s, inventions based on existing images."

    - Barry Schwabsky, "Whitney Bedford's Relocations"

  • Whitney Bedford Studio, 2021, Santa Monica, California
    Whitney Bedford Studio, 2021, Santa Monica, California
    Whitney Bedford Studio, 2021, Santa Monica, California

    Whitney Bedford Studio, 2021, Santa Monica, California

  • WHITNEY BEDFORD (b. 1976 in Baltimore, MD) received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI, and her Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of California in Los Angeles, CA.

     

    Recent solo exhibitions include Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY (forthcoming); Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL (forthcoming); Starkwhite, Auckland, New Zealand (forthcoming); “Reflections on the Anthropocene,” Vielmetter, Los Angeles, CA; “Numinous,” Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL; “Bohemia,” Starkwhite Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand; “The Left Coast,” Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA; “Bardo Parade,” Art:Concept, Paris, France; “East of Eden,” Carrie Secrist, Chicago, IL; “Lost and Found,” Starkwhite,Auckland,New Zealand;“Night and Day,”Taymour Grahne,NewYork,NY, and “West of Eden,” SusanneVielmetter LosAngeles Projects, Culver City, CA.

     

    Recent group exhibitions include“DoYouThink it Needs a Cloud,” Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY;“ Shall we go, you and I while we can,” Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL; “Kaleidescope,” Saatchi Gallery, London, UK; “How They Ran,” Over the Influence, Los Angeles, CA;“Evolver,” LA Louver, Los Angeles,CA;“New on theWall (N.O.W.),” Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH; “C’est CommeVousVoulez - As You Like It,” Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France; “Anniversary Show,” Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL;“ AVerdant Summer,” Taymour Grahne Gallery, New York, NY; “Painting: A Transitive Space,” ST PAUL ST Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand 2015; “La femme de trente ans,” Art: Concept, Paris France; “Lovers,” Starkwhite, Auckland, New Zealand; “Sargent’s Daughters,” Sargent’s Daughters, New York, NY; “Summer Group Show,” Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA; “Facing the Sublime in Water, CA,” Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA; “Everything Must Go,” A Project with Ceramica Suro Guadalajara, Mexico, organized by Jose Noe Suro and Eduardo Sarabia, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY; "The Gleaners:Works from the Sarah and Jim Taylor Collection,” Myhren Gallery, University of Denver, CO; “Five from LA,” Galerie Lelong, New York, NY; “Bagna Cauda,” Gallerie Art Concept, Paris, France; “Houdini: Art and Magic, 1919-1949,” The Jewish Museum, New York, NY; Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA; Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA; Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI; “This Is Killing Me,” Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA, and “PX - Snow Falls in the Mountains” (curated by Jan Bryant), St Paul’s Gallery, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.

     

    Her work is included in select collections including Eric Decelle, Brussels, Belgium; Francois Pinault Collection, Paris, France; Ginette Moulin and Guillaume Houzé Contemporary Art Collection, Paris, France; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Jumex Collection, Mexico City, Mexico; Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA; Pizutti Collection, Columbus, OH; Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz, Miami, FL and The Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom.

     

     

    She is the recipient of awards including the Pollock Krasner Award; UCLA Darcy Hayman Award; UCLA Hammer Museum Drawing Biennial Winner; Fulbright Graduate Fellowship, Hoschule der Kunste, Berlin, Germany; Karl-Hoffer Gesellschaft Atelier, Kunstler Werkstatt Banhoff Westend, and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection Studentship,Venice, Italy.

     

    Bedford lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

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