Veduta (Turner White Rainbow)

Whitney Bedford

BornNationalityBased In
1976AmericanLos Angeles
Biography

Born in 1976, Whitney Bedford lives and works in Los Angeles. Bedford uses her own mark making to bring the original source material of her paintings into the realm of the imaginary. Layered with both ink and oil paint, romantic scenes of destruction, calm at sea, and migrating birds are manipulated to the point of abstraction, showing only vestiges of her starting point. Bedford’s process has shifted in her recent works. In past paintings, drawing was used to create an architecture for gesture. Now, though the paintings technically begin with the drawings, a painstaking process of masking and unmasking pushes the drawn flora to the fore and places the viewer at a further distance from the pastoral scenes behind or outside of the space of drawing. The distance created between painting and drawing underscores Bedford’s archival research and careful selection of images that seem to belong to a lost or disappearing world. Her new drawings are part of an encyclopeadic exercise the artist is pursuing. Every day she draws a woman who persisted in solidarity and to continue unwavering support of women who are challenging the world to be better. She considers these to be votives of support, and part of the proceeds will go in donation to Emily’s List, helping elect anti-racist progressive Democratic female candidates. ...

Selected Artworks
Shipwreck (After August)
Bardo Parade
Whitney BedfordBardo Parade, 2017
71.12 x 93.98 x 3.81cm
The Night Ahead
Whitney BedfordThe Night Ahead, 2017
91.44 x 121.92 x 3.81cm
Cactus Trash and Treasure
Whitney BedfordCactus Trash and Treasure, 2016
91.44 x 121.92 x 5cm
Book (Guston)
Whitney BedfordBook (Guston), 2012
45.72 x 55.88cm
The Rattler
Whitney BedfordThe Rattler, 2017
71.12 x 93.98 x 3.81cm
Veduta (Monet Giverny)
Veduta (Turner White Rainbow)
Veduta (Gleizes)
Whitney BedfordVeduta (Gleizes), 2023
147.3 x 114.3 x 5cm
Gallery Representation
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