Jules White
http://www.americanartists.org/Staff/Jules/jules_white_gallery.htm
Mediums - Acrylic, Oil, Photo-Collage, Oil Pastel, Digital Media
Artist's Statement -"Using intense color and distortion of form, White turns traditional subjects into sites for meditation and rumination upon the human condition.."
Fort Worth Star Telegram
White's colors bulge and glow from the canvas. Like Van Gogh, he takes recognizable forms and enhances their color and distorts their form."
Birmingham Weekly
"We tend to think of young artists as being up and coming. It seems to me that, at the improbable age of twenty, Jules White has up and come. He first established himself as a portrait painter, achieving striking likenesses and facial animation with an economy of line. His bold use of primary colors when dealing with the face and figure is striking. White quickly moved on to landscapes, but maintained his painterly freedom, spontaneity, and intuitive sense of color. His landscapes sometimes combine a fascination with still life - as in a 1999 work in which a bunch of bananas and a closed book dominate the foreground of a dock set against a largely minimalistic background. So it was only a natural progression when White began a third phase, the still life. It is fitting that he calls one group of these "Sunscapes" bringing his elemental landscapes somehow into interiors and domestic spaces; and connoting his vivid use of chromatic and synthetic values - where no sun is ever so yellow, no sky ever so blue, no trees ever so green. As Peter Schjeldahl wrote of the colorist Wolf Kahn, "These are not colors that sunlight finds in nature; they are colors that an aroused sensibility finds, with joy, in the art of painting." Whatever Jules White's subject matter, his paintings reconcile vibrant color with intense personal discovery. "
Robert Phillips, Moores University Scholar, University of Houston
Biography - is the Director of Design and Technology for the Christopher Isherwood Foundation (www.isherwoodfoundation.org) and the Art Editor of the American Center for Artists (www.americanartists.org). His artwork was recently shown in the Cambridge Art Association's 2002 National Prize Show (juried by Lisa Dennison, Chief Curator of the Guggenheim Museum). Other recent exhibitions include the Summit Gallery, Fairhope, AL, The Kathryn Shultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA, and the University Place Gallery, Cambridge, MA.He is represented by Gallery Soco, Austin, TX, The Upstairs Gallery, Arlington, TX, Art Is Ok, Albuquerque, NM, The Summit Gallery, Fairhope, AL, and the Cathedral Square Gallery, Mobile, AL.
Gallery Affiliations - Artworks handled by:
Gallery Soco, Austin, Texas
The Upstairs Gallery, Arlington, Texas
Art Is Ok, Albuquerque, New Mexico
The Cathedral Square Gallery, Mobile, Alabama
Summit Gallery, Fairhope, Alabama
Exhibitions - Group Art Exhibitions:
August, 2002 Group Show, University Place Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts
July, 2002 Group Show, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts
May, 2002 Group Show, Cambridge Art Association National Juried Show, (judged by: Lisa Dennison, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum, New York, 135 of 1200 entries were shown), Cambridge, Massachusetts
March, 2002, Group Show, Summit Gallery, Fairhope, Alabama
January, 2002, Group Show, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama
December 2002, Group Show, The Gulf Space, Fairhope, Alabama
December 2002, Group Show, The Cannery, Fairhope, Alabama
Other Group Shows Include: University of South Alabama, Upstairs Gallery, Eastern Shore Art Center, Jubilee Festival, Shrimp Festival, and others
Solo Art Exhibitions:
May, 2003, Alabama Writers Symposium, Monroeville, Alabama
April, 2003, One-Man Show, The Summit Gallery, Fairhope, Alabama
February, 2002 One-Man Show, Eastern Shore Art Museum, Fairhope Alabama
June, 2000 One-Man Show, Bay Rivers Art Guild, Daphne Alabama
January, 2000 One-Man Show, Cathedral Square Art Gallery, Mobile Alabama
July, 1999 One-Man Show, Upstairs Gallery, Arlington, Texas
May, 1999 One-Man Show, President's Mansion, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
December, 1999 One-Man Show, Bay Rivers Art Guild, Daphne, Alabama
December, 1998 One-Man Show, Bay Rivers Art Guild, Daphne, Alabama