source: mymodernmet
This puffy white popcorn is certainly not for snacking! LA-based Pae White is a multimedia artist who blends art, design, and architecture into a variety of captivating creations. In this piece, she created tiny porcelain, gold-glazed kernels that were installed as part of multiple shows throughout 2011. In each installation, she attached popcorn pieces to thin wires hanging down from the ceiling. Aligned precisely, the pieces gradually shift from freshly popped corn to dark bits, blackened with badly burned edges.

The shifting color and bizarre placement of the everyday snack creates the inevitable question: “Why?” Viewers are naturally inclined to search for an answer but White’s work does not necessarily lead to an easy conclusion. According to her bio, she “encourages viewers to take a deeper look at familiar encounters and ordinary objects,” giving new life to otherwise average things. When confronted with her work, viewers will realize that the artist’s simple style is more complex than it first appears. Her thought-provoking installations lead us to really question the meaning behind the form and function of what we see.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
source: artsynet

Influenced by a diverse range of artists including Alexander Calder and the West Coast nun Sister Corita, multimedia artist Pae White merges art, design, and craft in works that transform ordinary materials into ephemeral objects and installations. For Smoke Knows (2009), a cotton and polyester tapestry that depicts a plume of smoke—the immateriality of the subject contrasting with the physicality of the fabric—White worked from photographic images of smoke. She has also created site-specific installations from vast quantities of yarn, and hanging mobiles composed of fragments of hand painted cardboard or hexagonal pieces of mirror suspended on string. Other works include cobwebs that White spray paints and affixes to paper.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
source: hammeruclaedu

Pae White was born in 1963 in Pasadena, California. She lives and works in Los Angeles. She received her M.F.A. from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and her B.A. from Scripps College in Claremont, California. She also studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. Recent solo exhibition venues include Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne; galleria francesca kaufmann, Milan; the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand; the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; greengrassi, London; and 1301PE, Los Angeles. Group exhibitions include The Americans: New Art, organized by the Barbican Art Centre in London, and Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000, organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Articles on her work have appeared in Frieze, Tema Celeste, Contemporary, Art Monthly, and Artforum, among others. In addition she has designed publications and advertisements for a number of museums, galleries, and magazines.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
source: fahrenheitmagazine

Pae White es una artista multidisciplinaria que actualmente reside y trabaja en Los Ángeles. Pae White nació en 1963 en Pasadena, California. Recibió su M.F.A. del Art Center College of Design de Pasadena y su BA de Scripps College en Claremont, California. También estudió en la Escuela de Skowhegan de Pintura y Escultura en Maine. Recientes lugares de exposición en solitario como Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Colonia; Galleria Francesca Kaufmann, Milán, la Galería de Arte Govett-Brewster, New Plymouth, Nueva Zelanda, la Galería de Arte Contemporáneo, Vancouver; greengrassi, Londres y 1301PE, Los Angeles. Exposiciones colectivas incluyen los norteamericanos: New Art, organizado por el Centro de Arte Barbican en Londres, y Made in California: Arte, Imagen e Identidad, 1900-2000, organizada por el Museo del Condado de Los Angeles de Arte. Artículos sobre su trabajo han aparecido en Frieze, Tema Celeste, Contemporáneo, Art Monthly, y Artforum, entre otros. Además se ha diseñado publicaciones y anuncios para un número de museos, galerías y revistas.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
source: undonet

Pae White è nata in California nel 1963, vive e lavora a Los Angeles. Le sue mostre personali recenti includono ORLLEGRO, MAK–Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst / Gegenwartskunst, Vienna (2013); In Love With Tomorrow, Langen Foun dation, Neuss, Düsseldorf (2013); Too Much Night, Agai, South London Gallery, Londra (2013); Material Mutters, The Power Plant, Toronto (2011); Weaving Unsung, 53esima Biennale di Venezia (2009).
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
source: nymphenburg

In ihrem Werk verschwimmen die Grenzen von Bildender Kunst und Design. In vielen ihrer Arbeiten sind Aspekte ihres eigenen Lebens und Elemente verschiedener Kulturen direkt miteinander verflochten – so auch in ihrem Beitrag für die „Skulptur Projekte Münster 2007“. Für dieses Projekt wurden in den Meisterwerkstätten von Nymphenburg drei große Glocken in Majolika realisiert.

Pae White lebt und arbeitet in Los Angeles.

Ihre Arbeiten wurden weltweit in vielen Museen ausgestellt, z. B. im Art Institute of Chicago (2011), im Hirschhorn Museum in Washington (2007), im Hammer Museum in Los Angeles (2004) und im Solomon Guggenheim Museum in New York. Ihr Werk ist bei den wichtigsten Biennalen für zeitgenössische Kunst vertreten, z. B. 2010 bei der Whitney-Biennale in New York, 2009 bei der 53. Biennale in Venedig und 2003 in der Utopia Station bei der 50. Biennale in Venedig.