Lasting Impressions, Edward Whiteman’s fourteenth solo exhibition with the Arthur Roger Gallery, features his renowned large-scale paintings, executed on reconstructed paper. The wall pieces range up to 6 feet in size, and are richly embedded with emblems of an almost primal legibility.
The artist’s preference to work in paper grew out of a desire, in his words, “to become part of the surface and to give it a personal history before committing myself to an image.” As such, Whiteman’s maintains the vitality of his work by tempering his dedication to meticulous technique with an openness to serendipitous discovery. In the creation of his “reconstructed” works, Whiteman employs a variety of methods to achieve an exquisitely textured surface that is equally as essential to the work as the allusive motifs it supports. Largely drawn from a recent body of work entitled Quilted Snapshots, this exhibition demonstrates Whiteman’s long-standing capacity for anchoring the abstract in a sturdy humanity.
