NANCY WHITE

NEW PAINTINGS

OPENING RECEPTION:
MARCH 13TH | 6:00 - 8:00PM

EXHIBITION DATES:
MARCH 13 - APRIL 19, 2025

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Romer Young Gallery is pleased to present its fourth solo exhibition with artist Nancy White. The exhibition will be on view March 13 - April 19, with an opening reception for the artist on Thursday, March 13th from 6-8pm.

At the heart of White’s aesthetic is the complexity of seeing, especially the elasticity of color. This new selection of paintings explores the relationship between complementary colors, a marked shift away from her almost monochromatic paintings of the past. Yellows sit against pale lavenders; reds pop up against soft greens and teal blues butt up to orangish hues. White plays with the contrast between light and dark, a vibrant tension that allows discrete areas to glow with intense color.  Her colorscapes practice a kind of formal restraint, one that quietly flirts with the viewer's perception as to whether they are seeing a world at dusk or dawn.

The artist works through many drawings and color studies before beginning the final painting. Colors are mixed and remixed. Lines, angles, and curves tilt and shift. Painted freehand, White’s hard-edge, strange but perhaps recognizable forms, appear to float or be three dimensional but they are not rendered. “As I work I am looking for how the entire painting locks together, how each form relies on all the others. The object is to build a world within the paintings that allows myself and others many ways to engage with it.“

Nancy White’s (b. 1948) work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions at Jancar Jones Gallery, San Francisco and Los Angeles, CA; Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, MA; and Takada Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Group exhibitions include Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, OR; Transmitter Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; the Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto; UC Berkeley Museum of Art, Berkeley CA; 2nd Floor Projects and Anglim Trimble Gallery, San Francisco, CA; the San Jose Institute of Contemporary, San Jose, CA; Higgins Art Gallery, Barnstable, MA; Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR; Los Gatos Art Museum, Los Gatos, CA; Busdori, Tokyo, Japan; and Paris Concret, Paris, France. Her work can be found in the collections of the UC Berkeley Art Museum, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the Crocker Museum, Sacramento, CA.

For more information, please contact Joey Piziali at joey@romeryounggallery.com or 415.550.7483

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