2022 Catalogue Archive

Blair Whiteford’s recent paintings merge art history and science fiction to create wholly imagined worlds inhabited by the artist’s cast of organic forms. In Tidal Multiplier, Whiteford uses a faded, earthy color palette reminiscent of early Renaissance paintings to build up thin washes of color into a swirling composition. His subjects are vaguely human, embryonic, heavenly, and on a threshold of existence. The tone of the work embodies the strange, complicated optimism of science fiction where an imagined future is the way to a better reality. Whiteford received his MFA from Yale University in 2019, and his work has been exhibited throughout the US.