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Alice Mcmahon White
 
 
关于此艺术家

All my life I have been fortunate to live with musicians. Music and what I listen to while I paint have a significant power over my artistic process, in what inspires me, in the emotions evoked and incorporated into a piece, and is even reflected in the popular song titles of the finished works.

I choose to depict contemporary places and people, but my goal is to use skill and imagination to produce works that portray the more enduring qualities of the world and of the human condition.

The White Album, my most recent work, is literally a labor of love, twenty years in the making. A quirky "photo-realism" album of my three teenagers, it is foremost a portrait of adolescence. My youngest son is just entering his turbulent teens; middle-child daughter a promising artist at 16-going-on-26; the eldest son, an adult of 19, is a freshman living at Kent State University, Ohio.

I was on the threshold of my own teen years when the Beatles were the soundtrack for the hippy era. This work draws parallels between then and now, and highlights the universal, eternal character of coming of age. I have attempted to explore the similarities of each generation, despite contemporary sensibilities and recent advances in technology.

A fellow artist recently noted, "We paint to deal with life." These candid "snapshots" are one way I've found to cope with the process of letting go that all parents must make. They document my children's progress during this transitional time in their lives. Thanks to them, I am still learning.

 
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Chains

2006
Pastel on paper
55 x 38cm

This piece will be exhibited soon at the new Saatchi Gallery, London! It won round 2 of the International Saatchi Showdown! Competition. From The White album series "Chains, my baby's got me locked up in chains, and they ain't the kind that you can see...Oh these chains of love got a hold on me, yeah."

Give Peace a Chance

2006
Pastel on paper
55 x 38cm

From "The White Album" series. "All we are saying, is give peace a chance!"

Drive My Car

2006
Pastel on paper
60 x 106cm

From "The White Album" series. "Baby you can drive my car. Yes I'm gonna be a star. Baby you can drive my car, and maybe I'll love you. Beep beep'm beep beep yeah!"

Yer Blues

2006
Pastel on paper
80 x 60

Won second place in the pastel category of the American Artist Magazine's 70th Anniversary competition. From The White Album series. "Yes I'm lonely, wanna die, if I ain't dead already, girl you know the reason why."

Black Butterfly

2008
Charcoal on mylar drafting film, with pink/grey backing paper and poem by the artist.
55 x 40

Self-portrait The Poem: Black Butterfly Bemusing muse Black butterfly Came through the ether Mystical wings Encircled me along the way Enraptured on a summer day Music painted on the sky Black butterfly Blown in from far off dust Astral soul Dressed in stardust Black butterfly Draw me perfect Emergent from this coal black shell Wet wings spread in joy to stand Transformed Flawless at the artist's hand Evanescent passion lies In our wavelengths intertwined Black butterfly Never caught Light gently in the mind Bring luminous thought (c) Alice McMahon White 2008

The Ballad of John and Yoko

2007
Charcoal on Mylar drafting film with grey backing paper.
70 x 50 cm

John and Yoko meet "American Gothic" :D I worked on this latest piece "The Ballad of John and Yoko" on December 8th, the anniversary of John Lennon's death, and wanted to finish it for Christmas, "WAR IS OVER! if you want it Happy Christmas". This is another portrait of my oldest son and his girl. I took this snap when we were heading to downtown Chicago on the train one day. I was going to my studio, they were heading to sightsee, including the Art Institute of Chicago. Carrie is an artist, and Grant Wood's "American Gothic" is part of the AIOC collection. This photo struck me double, because they look to me like both John and Yoko (so in love, those sunglasses!) and also so similar in pose and setting to "American Gothic". That made me smile and while I know that the Grant Wood piece is the most highly spoofed artwork of all time, I just couldn't resist this one. I took another reference of the train station in my neighborhood and used it in the background, only changing the dormer window to a gothic style window and adding the peace sign. I decided to change the logo on his t-shirt to a John Lennon drawing of John and Yoko. I kept the stylized rounded tree shapes of the Wood painting, he was inspired by Memling. The Celtic knotwork pendants were my gift to them. Wood's piece was painted in 1930 but depicted the Victorian era. Mine depicts a contemporary couple, but harks back to the Beatles hippie days. I replaced the pitchfork with the carnation John was holding in the famous John and Yoko photo of the Bed In. I used the same scale as the Grant wood original, and took the walk two blocks from my studio to see the painting in person, up close. I also wanted to take a look at the frame, and plan to frame my drawing as similar as possible. It's a rustic looking distressed frame.

Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)

2007
Charcoal on Mylar drafting film with grey backing paper. triptych.
55 x 110 cm

I used three photos of my daughter for the work, cropped and manipulated in the computer until I found the composition I liked. I decided to do a triptych because I liked all three photos and thought they looked well together. I took the photos 2 years ago in the cemetery down the block from our home. She chose the clothing for the shoot, but I changed the t-shirt design to work with the theme for my piece, which is bird extinction. The mylar is a very slick surface and fun to work on, and has more of a sensation of painting because of the "oiliness" of the charcoal on the mylar. Delicate areas are quite difficult to achieve. If you rub your finger over a fairly lightly covered area, the paper wipes clean, so soft gradations are troublesome. You can build up dark layers of charcoal and lighten it to gray by rubbing with your fingers, or erase back down to the surface with a kneaded eraser. I purposely left much of the work rough because the surface works so well for that. The finished work has a very interesting glow in person that doesn't photograph well. The frosted finish is quite lovely - almost like human skin in sheen.

Hey Jude

2008
Charcoal on Stonehenge paper.
45 x 80 cm

From The White album series. Co-operative diptych drawing of my son, I did the drawing, my daughter the photography, editing & composition.
 
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Solo Exhibitions
2008 "The White Album", pastels and drawings inspired by Beatles tunes and coming of age. The Beverly Arts Center, Chicago
2007 "Into the Mystic", Beverly Arts Center, Chicago, IL
2006 "The White Album", Fine Arts Building Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Green Groves of Erin", McCord House Gallery, Palos Park, IL, the Beverly Arts Center, Chicago Children's Museum at Navy Pier, and the Irish American Heritage Center, Chicago, IL
2005 "Passport to Ireland", Chicago Children's Museum at Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
Awards
2008 First Place, Gallery 2008, De Caprio Gallery, Moraine Valley Community College, Palos Hills, IL
2007 Saatchi Showdown! Winner, Round 2
Semi-finalist, American Artist Magazine's 70th Anniversary Competition
Jerry's/Girault Award, Pastels Chicago, National Juried Competition, Chicago Pastel Painters, Chicago, IL
2006 Canson Award, Pastels USA, Pastel Society of the West Coast, Auburn, California
2005 Best Drawing, Plaza Art Competition, Beverly Arts Center, Chicago, IL
Best of Show, Gallery 2005, De Caprio Gallery, Moraine Valley Community College, Palos Hills, IL
2004 Honorable Mention, Self-Portraits 2004, Northwest Cultural Council's International Juried Exhibition; Rolling Meadows, IL
2002 Third place, Gallery 2002, De Caprio Gallery at Moraine Valley Community College; Palos Hills, IL

Education:
Largely self-taught
 
未来的展览
Saatchi Showdown Exhibition, The Saatchi Gallery, London
 
网站:  www.amwhitestudio.com
 
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