{"id":9486,"date":"2012-01-21T07:39:18","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T12:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=9486"},"modified":"2012-01-25T11:41:13","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T16:41:13","slug":"mie-by-eric-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2012\/01\/21\/mie-by-eric-white\/","title":{"rendered":"~ERIC WHITE does MIE !! . . and up-date !! . . . and correction !!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n‘MIE’ – by ERIC WHITE, 2012. oil on panel, 10 x 8 in. part of the big portrait show opening to-nite at FREIGHT+VOLUME.<\/p>\n

‘MIE: A Portrait by 35 Artists’ – OPENS To-NITE – SAT – JAN 21, 2012 \/ 6-8 PM
\nCURATED BY NICK LAWRENCE and MIE IWATSUKI
\nthe show runs JAN 21 – Feb 25, 2012
\nFREIGHT +VOLUME – 542 W.24th ST – CHELSEA <\/a><\/p>\n

p.s. wow. the first snow – you know, the real white<\/em> stuff – in the city today !! it was looking more like Spring in winter, otherwise. no big storm – just a steady but gentle snowfall – but thick, thick enough to hold shape on the ground. nice. it’s still falling white<\/em>, as of this morning. maybe we’ll get 5 or 6 ins. by noon !!<\/p>\n

all good. all magic realism<\/em> . . . including Eric’s painting. all earthly vibes in sync. at least in NYC.<\/p>\n

Eric White’s surreal, eerie and ‘crystalline’ portrait . . . the perfect blow-out refractory image for an extremely auspicious weekend – bookended as it is, by the return of planetary wanderer the hi-octane Saturn this past Friday, and the start of the Chinese New Year, the all-powerful Year of the Dragon, this Monday !! <\/p>\n

if the year of the dragon wasn’t already the most imperial of the 12 signs in the Chinese zodiac, imagine the kick start it gets – from this celestial alignment. <\/p>\n

all the other Chines zodiac signs are earth-bound bio, in fact farm animals . . . except the sign of the dragon – which is mythic, and all-powerful, larger than life, the stuff of emperors – springing as it does from the arts, or better put: the visual and poetic realm of the imagination !!
\ni.e. the mind of man. the creative impulse.<\/p>\n

in Western culture – think flying fire-breathing dragon x 1,000 – as in the myths, not to forget the flowering of Western literature – of King Arthur and Sir Lancelot, the cult of Camelot, the magic of Merlin and the questing knights of the round table. <\/p>\n

in the visual realm: medieval tapestries and rock crystal vessels – anyone ?<\/p>\n

as they are saying. . . The Year of the Dragon will breathe fire<\/em> into the human spirit. and the return of Saturn initiates a new cycle of re-boot, ‘nourishment’ and justice. put them both together – and that’s not a bad way to go forward – no matter how you cut it. <\/p>\n

UP-DATE: MONDAY 12:14 AM<\/strong><\/p>\n

ERIK WHITE<\/strong> has a very interesting portfolio of work up on his website, see: ERIC WHITE: images <\/a><\/p>\n

including a big gray piece with large surface floating yellow disks, titled ‘FOYER’ – with its obvious reference\/homage to DAVID SALLE.<\/p>\n

they range from the classic ‘two tone’ gray ‘Hollywood’ realist painting – ‘THE DRIFTER’ . . . to the almost, basically ‘two tone’ – blue ‘crystal’ psychedelic ‘HEAVEN CAN WAIT’ – which seems to be the painterly source or starting point for the ultra-recent (!!) 2012 portrait of ‘MIE’. <\/p>\n

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\nERIC WHITE, ‘THE DRIFTER’, 2009. oil on canvas, 40 x 60 ins. image c\/o ERIC WHITE: images<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nERIC WHITE, ‘HEAVEN CAN WAIT’, 2008. oil on canvas, 24 x 24 ins. image c\/o ERIC WHITE: images<\/a><\/p>\n

note for hyper realism super fanatics:
\nI even noticed a reference\/homage to the hyper realist 303 Gallery painter, TIM GARDNER – and his family childhood ‘photo’ portraits, albeit with ‘spores’ – on another site.<\/p>\n

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\narray of small paintings by ERIC WHITE from his 2004 solo show, ‘Who Are Parents’ – at EARL McGRATH GALLERY, NYC.
\n<\/a>it would be the small ‘family photo’ portrait of the young boy in the striped shirt . . . . . no ?
\njust saying. it’s interesting to see the dialogs develop in his work, and then take off. <\/p>\n

UP-DATE: WED JAN 25, 2012 – CORRECTION !!<\/strong><\/p>\n

WOW. I STAND CORRECTED – TALK ABOUT HYPER REALISM !!<\/strong>
\nNO, that’s NOT an array of small paintings on a wall – that’s a PAINTING of a small array of canvases on a wall !! ha. you done got me. <\/p>\n

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\nERIC WHITE, ‘Collusion: Angst’ 2003. oil on canvas, 24 x 24 ins.
\nnice job.<\/p>\n

ERIC WHITE<\/strong> was raised in Michigan, and got his BFA (1990) from the RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL Of DESIGN. After a decade-long stint in California, he made his way to New York City, where he currently lives and works. according his CV<\/a> he has been teaching at SVA since 2006. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

‘MIE’ – by ERIC WHITE, 2012. oil on panel, 10 x 8 in. part of the big portrait show opening to-nite at FREIGHT+VOLUME. ‘MIE: A Portrait by 35 Artists’ – OPENS To-NITE – SAT – JAN 21, 2012 \/ 6-8 PM CURATED BY NICK LAWRENCE and MIE IWATSUKI the show runs JAN 21 – Feb […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9486"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9486"}],"version-history":[{"count":41,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9568,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9486\/revisions\/9568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}