Austin Martin White
exodus, 2023
Acrylic medium, pigment, vinyl and 3m reflective fabric
Signed and dated verso
208.3 x 182.9 cm
82 x 72 inches
82 x 72 inches
B-AMWHITE-.23-0006
Austin Martin White's dense and tactile compositions intricately examine hierarchical frameworks within Western art history. His work 'Exodus' references historical imagery from a New Orleans archive, meticulously dissecting ethnographic content's...
Austin Martin White's dense and tactile compositions intricately examine hierarchical frameworks within Western art history. His work 'Exodus' references historical imagery from a New Orleans archive, meticulously dissecting ethnographic content's role in perpetuating colonial subjugation and racial biases. Through a distinct and singular artistic process, White undertakes a transformation of these visual fragments, which are deeply rooted in racialised phantasms and narratives of violence. By reclaiming the colonial image the artist redefines its meaning through abstraction — wresting control of representation from the dominion of prejudicial historiography — with his idiosyncratic use of color and texture, which emerges from an innovative technical process of extruded relief painting.