Artist Statement
Angela White-Wenger organizes, collages, and coordinates the interactions of physical and cultural materials in search of heightened perceptions and experiences of interrelatedness. Their work includes site-specific, kinetic sound sculptures, 2D portraits of water, re-faced and re-situated American dollar bills, and trace fossil records of the silk-work of Pacific Northwestern orb weavers. They have shared their work at farmers markets, museums, street fairs, galleries, and small shops in different parts of America. Throughout their work run themes of adaptation, time, motherhood, and ecological imagination. Often her work repurposes and recontextualizes devalued, discarded, or invisibilized materials and concepts. It questions current sources of meaning and invites participants to decenter established genres of humanity and make kin across borders.
Angela was born in Akron, Ohio, holds a BFA in Ceramics from University of Akron, Myers School of Art, and an MFA in Sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University. Currently, she lives and practices in Portland, Oregon with her partner and daughter.
She has exhibited at Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Greg Kucera Gallery, Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art, Royal Ontario Museum, Talon Gallery and other places.
Bio
Born in Akron, Ohio, Angela White-Wenger earned her BFA in Ceramics from University of Akron, Myers School of Art, and MFA in Sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University. With her partner and their child in Portland, Oregon, she designs artistic methods and practices to shape and enrich her daily engagement and learning.
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Education
2009 MFA Sculpture, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
2002 BFA Ceramics, University of Akron, Myers School of Art, Akron, OH
2001 37th International Ceramic Sculpture Symposium, Ceramikan Artystyczna, Boleslawiec, Poland
Awards
2005 Jacob K. Javits Fellowship U.S. Department of Education, Washington, D.C.
2004 Graduate School Fellowship School of Arts Sculpture Department, VCU
2003 Ohio Arts Council Residency at the Studio of Young Artists Association, Budapest, Hungary Wendy L. Moore Emerging Artist Series, The Moore Family and MOCA Cleveland,OH Northern Ohio Live Magazine, Cleveland, OH, Northern Ohio Live Award of Achievement
Solo Exhibitions
2017 SFCC Fine Arts Gallery, Spokane, WA, MIXED MEDIA TRAPS
2011 SFCC Fine Arts Gallery, Spokane, WA, do something
2008 Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, More Than Concrete
2007 Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA, Always A Pleasure
2004 Summit Art Space, Akron, OH, eyeforcolour: Ceramic Paintings
2003 MOCA Cleveland, OH, Wendy L. Moore Emerging Artist Series, Garbology: Fiber, Fluff & Fuzz
2001 Millworks Gallery, Akron, OH, Living Sculpture: subject to change Bierce Library, Akron, OH, Object Environment
Group Exhibitions
2010 Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, Material/Immaterial
2007 ICA, Philadelphia, PA, Ensemble, curated by Christian Marclay (catalogue)
Kim Foster Gallery, New York, NY, More Fresh Meat Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 3D News
2006 Emilly Davis Gallery, Akron, OH, stationary lovers Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA, Are you a lover Flat International, Richmond, VA, Here it is
2005 Corrugated Box, Richmond, VA, Antediluvian
2004 Plant Zero, Richmond, VA, Light Friction
Flat International, Richmond, VA, Polymorphously Perverse
Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, OH, Back From SPACELab: 10 Years of Innovation John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, READY TO WEAR
Firelands Association for the Visual Arts, Oberlin, OH, Artist as Quiltmaker: 20 years
2003 Studio of Young Artist Association, Budapest, Hungary, Don’t Mind the Gap! Garbologist??? Spring Mill Gallery, Conshohocken, PA, Accouterment
2001 Boleslawiec, Poland, Ceramikan Artystyczna, 37th International Ceramic Sculpture Exhibition
2000 Kent State University/Stark Branch Fine Arts Gallery, Canton, OH, The Figure in Ceramics & Painting
Charles Mayor Gallery, Akron, OH, Artists of Rubber City 10th Area Artist Annual Juried Show 1999 The Shot Tower Gallery, Columbus, OH, NCECA Regional Juried Student Competition, Passion and Process
Performances
2017 SFCC Fine Arts Gallery, Spokane, WA, MIXED MEDIA TRAPS
2016 Beacon Sound, Portland, OR, Shootout Figure
2004 Lewis Furniture Building, Richmond, VA, Dust Video
Lewis Furniture Building, Richmond, VA, 15 hopeful dancers
Lewis Furniture Building, Richmond, VA, if frogs were princess and strawberries were kisses
2003 Cleveland Public Theatre, Cleveland, OH, Pandemonium
2002 Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, OH, Living Sculpture II
2000 Emily Davis Gallery, Akron, OH, Pat Oleszko and The D'Akron Cast-Off Thousands Performance alas@See.Arg!
Millworks Gallery, Akron, OH, Incident at the Icehouse Northside Ice and Coal Complex
Bibliography
2008 Marclay, Christian, Ensemble (catalogue), 2008 Martens, Anne, Reviews, Flash Art, March – April
2007 Galvez, Paul, “Ensemble: Institute of Contemporary Art”, ArtForum
Hackett, Regina, “White and Donovan employ mundane objects to explore our interior lives”, Seattle Post Intelligencer, July 26, <http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/visualart/325222_visual27.html>
Kurtz, Katie, “The Pleasure is All Mine: Angela White excavates accidents”, TheStranger.com,
July 11
Myers, Holly, “Cleverness with Brown Tubes”, Los Angeles Times, January 26
Goldman, Edward, “Art Talk”, KCRW, January 9
Burket, Brent, “Play Along: Ensemble at the ICA in Philadelphia”, ArtCal Zine, December 3
Private Collections
Maxine and Stuart Frankel
Jill and Jay Bernstein Rebecca Unterman
Carol and David Appel Daryl and Jeff Stokols Shoshana and Wayne Blank