Pae White AGAMEMNOMICS (detail), 2013.
Toy pieces: Glass, wood, clay, porcelain, plastic, acrylic, rubber, ink, and paint
Display case: Steel, glass, acrylic glass, and wood
Collection of Pae White
In collaboration with Jemima Brown, London; David Carlson, Los Angeles; Cerámica Suro, Tlaquepaque, Mexico; Bernardo Chavez, Guadalajara, Mexico; Jeaka Chen, Guangzhou, China; Liz Craft, Venice, California; Aida and Saulius Dirse, Vilnius, Lithuania; EiABC protoLAB, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Erzgebirge, Berlin; Léo Kosm, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; David McDonald, Pasadena, California; Pentti Monkkonen, Venice, California; Rebecca Neiderlander, Eagle Rock, Los Angeles; Robert Tolone, Long Beach, California.
Sponsored by the Richard A. Karp Charitable Foundation, Doris and Alan Burgess, Theres and Dennis Rohan, Tad Freese and Brook Hartzell, and Mary Mocas and Marv Tseu. Additional support provided by Hildy Shandell Beville and Ross Harwood Beville, 1301PE, Los Angeles, and Roxanne Fleming and David Soward.
Supported, in part, by a Cultural Affairs grant from the City of San José.
Los Angeles-based artist Pae White transcends nearly all traditional boundaries—between art and design; craft and fine art; theory and materiality. Her curiosity with the world reveals itself in her transformation of ordinary objects into profoundly transient experiences that defy logic, yet remain oddly familiar.