The Adam Whitecash Show |
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Adam Whitecash is the pseudonym of a well-known artist who has exhibited extensively and is represented by galleries in New York and Los Angeles. She is a highly regarded painter with a keen compositional eye, and a flair for brushwork. Most of her paintings are pictorial narrative tales about femininity, race relations, and art world shenanigans. Her immersive studio process includes a wide range of materials, and though she is a painter to the core, she often veers into areas that defy categorization. The pieces in the “Adam Whitecash” series appear to be traditional works on paper--framed and presented as such, but are actually made out of the artist’s studio debris-- disposable palette papers reconsidered, reconfigured, and resolved as finished paintings.
There is a curious dynamic happening here. The artist recognizes the aesthetic value of the used palettes, and finesses them as only she could--with artistry and authenticity. But by refusing to claim authorship the pieces become far more than the aesthetic beauties that they are.
Now they are paintings that can easily be described as Zombie Formalism, which gives them particular brand of contemporary currency. Attributing them to a fictitious artist who happens to be young and white and male creates opposition, which is not new for this artist whose scorching humor is often directed at the art world, and other established institutions.
This is Adam Whitecash’s first show at Front Gallery.
Follow the work on Instagram @adamwhitecash