New Paintings by Wayne White
Zeitgeist opens its Fall art season in Nashville with new work by internationally recognized artist Wayne White.
World known artist, art director, and puppeteer, Wayne White , is a Chattanooga native now living in LA. Mr. White has worked as an illustrator for the East Village Eye, New York Times, Raw Magazine, and the Village Voice and in 1986. He became a designer for the hit television show Pee-wee's Playhouse, was awarded with three Emmys, and continued to work in television and music video garnering Billboard and MTV awards. His focus now is on painting.
Mr. White's most recognizable works are his word paintings featuring oversized, three-dimensional text painstakingly integrated into vintage landscape lithographs. The paintings are thought-provoking and almost always humorous. Wayne enjoys pointing a finger at vanity, ego, and his memories of the South.
In 2009, Mr. White's life and career were chronicled in a 382-page monograph, edited by Todd Oldham. The book features hundreds of images from Wayne 's earliest work as an illustrator all the way to his most recent fine art sculptures. Signed copies of the book will be available at the reception. Wayne will also be in the gallery from 2 to 4PM on Saturday, September 3rd.
Wayne was most recently in Nashville working with students at Watkins College of Art and Design.
