Wallace Whitney
Wallace Whitney's (b. 1969, Boston, MA) work is marked by activated gestures, a considered palette and an ambitious use of scale to make paintings seemingly breathe.
Building complex formal rhythms with dripped and spattered paint, Whitney’s canvases blend thick, organic brushstrokes with layered fields of color to assemble compositions that revel in the space between accident and intention. His practice exploits the generative possibilities of experimentation, incorporating unorthodox compositional strategies and unexpected methods of applying paint, in order to make motley grounds of tangled shapes that coalesce into precarious equilibrium.
Artworks
Wallace Whitney,
After June,
2020,
40 × 30 in (101.6 × 76.2 cm)
Oil on canvas, Photo ©Adam Reich. Courtesy Ceysson & Bénétière
Wallace Whitney,
Breezing Up,
2020,
50 × 65 in (127 × 165.1 cm)
Oil on canvas, Photo ©Adam Reich. Courtesy Ceysson & Bénétière
Wallace Whitney,
Dogtown,
19 ½ × 17 ½ in (49.53 × 44.45 cm)
Photo ©Adam Reich. Courtesy Ceysson & Bénétière.
Wallace Whitney,
Grass River,
2020,
40 × 30 in (101.6 × 76.2 cm)
Oil on canvas, Photo ©Adam Reich. Courtesy Ceysson & Bénétière
Wallace Whitney,
Prospect Avenue,
2018,
59 ½ × 69 ½ in (151.13 × 176.53 cm)
Oil on canvas
Wallace Whitney,
Untitled,
2018,
25 × 30 in (63.5 × 76.2 cm)
Oil on canvas
Wallace Whitney,
Untitled,
2018,
20 × 18 in (50.8 × 45.72 cm)
Oil on canvas, Photo ©Adam Reich. Courtesy Ceysson & Bénétière
Wallace Whitney,
Untitled, Jalopy Ride,
2018,
61 × 77 in (154.94 × 195.58 cm)
Oil on canvas, Photo ©Adam Reich. Courtesy Ceysson & Bénétière
Wallace Whitney,
Untitled,
2018,
11 × 11 in (27.94 × 27.94 cm)
Oil on canvas, Photo ©Adam Reich. Courtesy Ceysson & Bénétière
Wallace Whitney,
Untitled,
2018,
63 × 52 in (160.02 × 132.08 cm)
Oil on canvas, Photo ©Adam Reich. Courtesy Ceysson & Bénétière
Wallace Whitney,
Untitled,
2015,
70 × 63 in (177.8 × 160.02 cm)
Oil on canvas
Wallace Whitney,
Untitled,
2015,
65 × 77 in (165.1 × 195.58 cm)
Oil on canvas
Wallace Whitney,
Untitled,
2015,
77 × 75 in (195.58 × 190.5 cm)
Oil on canvas
Wallace Whitney,
Pond,
2014,
78 × 61 in (198.12 × 154.94 cm)
Oil on linen
Wallace Whitney,
Metz,
2014,
62 × 51 in (157.48 × 129.54 cm)
Oil on canvas
Wallace Whitney,
San Juan,
2014,
77 × 75 in (195.58 × 190.5 cm)
Oil on canvas
Wallace Whitney,
Open Source,
2014,
63 × 51 in (160.02 × 129.54 cm)
Oil on linen
Wallace Whitney,
The Wave,
2014,
66 × 61 in (167.64 × 154.94 cm)
Oil on canvas
Wallace Whitney,
Rabbitmoon,
2014,
22 × 20 in (55.88 × 50.8 cm)
Oil on canvas
Wallace Whitney,
Icebreaker,
2014,
22 × 20 in (55.88 × 50.8 cm)
Oil on canvas
Wallace Whitney,
Elegy for a Profile,
2013,
63 × 51 in (160.02 × 129.54 cm)
Oil on canvas
Wallace Whitney,
Behind Lufkin's Diner,
2013,
64 × 52 in (162.56 × 132.08 cm)
Oil on canvas
Exhibitions
Press
Nana Asfour "Wallace Whitney, ‘Dream Feed’." Time Out New York November 1, 2010
Martin Coomer "Canada." Time Out London February 6, 2010
James Yood "Wallace Whitney." Artforum November 2008
Stephen Maine "Report From New York: Down East." Art in America May 2006
Roberta Smith "New York's Finest." The New York Times February 11, 2005
CV
Wallace Whitney
b. 1969, Boston, MA
Lives and works in Bronx, NY
Education
2001
MFA, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
1991
BA, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2025
Wallace Whitney: The Rich Hour, Ceysson & Bénétière, New York, NY
2020
Wallace Whitney: Take the Air, Ceysson & Bénétière, New York, NY
2018
Wallace Whitney: Braided Sky, Ceysson & Bénétière, New York, NY
Wallace Whitney: Patience Gift, Soloway, Brooklyn, NY
2016
Alight, Align, Ceysson & Bénétière, Saint-Etienne, France
2014
WHAT, Ceysson & Bénétière, Geneva, Switzerland
2013
Contact High, American Contemporary, New York, NY
2012
The Feeling That Selects You, Ceysson & Bénétière, Paris, France
Solo Presentation, The Armory Show, Horton Gallery, New York, NY
2011
Bears in the Trees, Ceysson & Bénétière, Koerich, Luxembourg
2010
Dream Feed, Horton Gallery, New York, NY
2008
Wrong Mountain, Rowland Contemporary, Chicago, IL
2006
Rock House Paintings, David Krut Projects, New York, NY
2003
Formages, Canada, New York, NY