Untouched: Kevin White
Reception: Friday, May 28, 2010
Exhibition continues through June 26, 2010

First Outsider Art Exhibition Opens at PAC Gallery

PAC Gallery is pleased to announce Kevin White Exhibition title TBD. In his work, Kevin White communicates through a Morse code of text, dots, and lines. His collections of books, dead reptiles, pictures of animals, and art materials like markers, paper, and bottles of glue inspire him. His works range from 2 dimensional paintings and drawing to 3 dimensional pop bottle and repurposed materials and machine sculptures. His paintings and drawings tell an imaginative story, through patterns, colors, and animals like crocodiles and snakes. The images are closely reminiscent of the finished art of the Australian Aboriginal Indian Tribes with their references to maps and animals using dots and line to meticulously describe their environment.

His creative works, coupled with his active community involvement have increasingly gained the attention of artistic circles and show no signs of slowing down.   The artist also interacts and observes the activity within the studio and, though silent, displays evidence of the importance of his participation and presence among the other artists and within the studio.

White has his own space in the V&V Northside studio that he created and that is supported by the V&V staff.  Currently he has been engaged in found object sculpture and painting. He incorporates pop cans, cardboard, fabric and other materials into pieced together arrangement in 2 and 3 dimensional arts. His work maintains an entirely cohesive visual and is growing in volume and structure. His sculpture/mixed media has taken top priority over the past few months, as has his specifically organized arrangement of elements within each piece. His process toward color selection has changed toward earth tones as opposed to bright fluorescents.

Kevin White is currently teaching art to pre-school students at Winton Montessori School in Northside; he was one of four artists who spoke about their artistic process at the Cincinnati Art Museum’s Families 1st Saturday in conjunction with V&V exhibition there called: “Matisse/Picasso: A Visionary Exploration.”

Over the course of the past year, White’s works have been exhibited widely, including one-man shows at AVS Gallery, Joseph Williams Homes and the Over the Rhine Chamber of Commerce.  His work has also been exhibited at Essex Studios, Base Gallery, Designsmith Gallery, Fitton Center for Creative Arts, ArtWorks, University Gallery at Sycamore, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Visionati I and II, Algin Furniture, Miami University in Middletown, Slotin Folk Festival in Atlanta, Ga; and in every exhibit at V&V’s Northside Gallery.  His work has been featured in City Beat and in Folk Art Messenger.