Eric White

About the AuthorEric White received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1990. Daniel Rounds is a labor activist and a poet. White has served as adjunct professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York since 2006. Ivan Quaroni is an art critic and curator. Anthony Haden-Guest is a British-American writer, reporter, cartoonist, art critic, poet, and socialite. . In 2010, White received a Painting Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Robert Flynn Johnson is Curator Emeritus of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and an author. Peter Coyote is an actor, author, director, and screenwriter

White's work opens a window into an alternate universe, one that is distorted, dark, and extremely witty.. His work is inspired by cinema—especially the golden age of Hollywood—and an obscure pop culture seen through the lens of a satirical and fantastical schizophrenic dream logic. This book covers the breadth of his career so far, from his earliest acrylics, oils, and works on paper, to his subverted album cover paintings, work he describes as paranoid social realism, and his "1/3 Scale Retrospective" installations. The first comprehensive and long-overdue monograph of visual artist Eric White, containing mostly previously unpublished work. Eric White generates a world of psychologically charged narratives in his masterfully executed and surreal figurative paintings

. Peter Coyote is an actor, author, director, and screenwriter. Ivan Quaroni is an art critic and curator. White has served as adjunct professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York since 2006. In 2010, White received a Painting Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Daniel Rounds is a labor activist and a poet. Anthony Hade

J. Korp said Warning for the easily offended:. I think Eric White is one of the greatest painters alive. But I want to warn anyone who is sensitive, there is one pornographic image - not a nude (though there are a few nudes as well), but a pornographic painting of an imaginary comic strip with Katherine Hepburn and Charles Mingus doing it. If you're not cool with that, this probably isn't the book for you anyways. That said, Mr. White is a rare talent and I can't recommend this collection o. Five Stars Maria A Brundage Fabulous. Like beautiful dreams bent into haunting shapes Finally a monograph for this astounding talent. So much skill and effort goes into each painting, allowing the viewer to submerge into worlds that are familiar but from some parallel plane or consciousness. Like beautiful dreams bent into haunting shapes. Because Mr. White eschews many of the tricks available to his peers, instead painstakingly rendering these insanely precise images by hand, there is an amplified aura to them, making them all