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Cate White Statement: World Raw
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World Raw consists of selected paintings and sculptures from the last twelve years.
These works inhabit a world where personal memory, dreams, political reality, religion, banal culture, and archetypal myth have not yet been separately categorized. Images translate from one story into another, remixing contexts until they lose their fixed meanings. Armageddon arrives as a vaguely sinister faceless shmoo. The devil wears flip-flops with socks instead of cloven hooves. Horror and hilarity trade masks. The miraculous and the absurd share the same language. The sacred, psychological, traumatic, mythic, domestic, and comic all stand on equal groundless ground. Over the years, the work has delivered images of confinement and escape: caves, cells, thresholds, thrashing, illuminated openings. But the way to liberation is never clear, and running beneath the work is an undercurrent of grief—for failed transformations, lost certainties, and the perpetual distance between desire and fulfillment. The sacred and ridiculous are merged. Enlightenment appears as a spray-painted glow. The process of painting is a tightrope act between intention and accident, structure and impulse. Both order and chaos can become prisons. I am searching for a third place: moments of bewilderment, play, revelation, or recognition. Rather than offering a coherent narrative, these works invoke a raw world, unfinished and alive, where meaning is in the making. These works inhabit a world where personal memory, dreams, political reality, religion, banal culture, and archetypal myth have not yet been separately categorized. Images translate from one story into another, remixing contexts until they lose their fixed meanings. Armageddon arrives as a vaguely sinister faceless shmoo. The devil wears flip-flops with socks instead of cloven hooves. Horror and hilarity trade masks. The miraculous and the absurd share the same language. The sacred, psychological, traumatic, mythic, domestic, and comic all stand on equal groundless ground. Over the years, the work has delivered images of confinement and escape: caves, cells, thresholds, thrashing, illuminated openings. But the way to liberation is never clear, and running beneath the work is an undercurrent of grief—for failed transformations, lost certainties, and the perpetual distance between desire and fulfillment. The sacred and ridiculous are merged. Enlightenment appears as a spray-painted glow. The process of painting is a tightrope act between intention and accident, structure and impulse. Both order and chaos can become prisons. I am searching for a third place: moments of bewilderment, play, revelation, or recognition. Rather than offering a coherent narrative, these works invoke a raw world, unfinished and alive, where meaning is in the making. ~ Cate White |
More about Weez in a Cell
Weez in a Cell, 2017, acrylic, latex, spray paint, glitter on canvas, 78 x 72 in
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In 2012, Cate, her friend JR and his prison pen pal, Weez, were working together to create Beyond This Prison - an organization for personal and social liberation.
Cate was called in to illustrate Weez's writings for the website and in the process got to know him and visited him in prison with JR, leading her to become more involved with his case with a conviction he should not be in prison any longer. At the time, Weez had served 18 years of a 40 year prison sentence handed down to him when he was just 19, with no possibility of parole. In learning more about the circumstances of the case, Cate discovered that the original judge and DA had been fired and investigated for crimes of corruption. A Go Fund Me campaign quickly raised the $2,400 retainer to secure a new defense attorney and through her efforts Weez was ultimately released. Check out The Performer and Creator's Lab Podcast for more about this story of humanity, the creative spirit, crime and justice as told through the lens of Weez and Cate's experience. |
More about Cate White
Self-taught beginning at age 30, White’s work became public in 2014 with the ProArts 2x2 Solos Exhibition, followed by the 2015 Tournesol Award from Headlands Center for the Arts, the Bay Area Now 8 triennial at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and residencies including a fully-funded, year-long residency in Roswell, New Mexico, a Master Artist residency with Joan Snyder at Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Mills College Art Museum A+P+I residency, and 10 solo shows and multiple group shows in the Bay Area and beyond.
While primarily a painter, White often exhibits her work in multi-media installations that include drawings, sculpture, video and books.
She now splits her time between Oakland and a shack on the Mendo Coast where she hosted How Do You Paint, an unhinged, Bob Ross-inspired painting show on YouTube.
While primarily a painter, White often exhibits her work in multi-media installations that include drawings, sculpture, video and books.
She now splits her time between Oakland and a shack on the Mendo Coast where she hosted How Do You Paint, an unhinged, Bob Ross-inspired painting show on YouTube.
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Cate White
EDUCATION MFA 2012 John F. Kennedy University, Berkeley, CA BA 1994 Interdisciplinary Studies, Dominican University, San Rafael, CA AWARDS 2015 Tournesol Award 2014-2015, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA 2014 2x2 Solos, ProArts, Oakland, CA RESIDENCIES 2019 Art + Process + Ideas residency, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA 2017 Atlantic Center for the Arts Master Artist Residency with Joan Snyder, New Smyrna, FL 2015 Roswell Artist-in-Residence, 1 year, fully-funded residency in Roswell, NM SOLO SHOWS 2024 MEN, Small Works Projects, San Francisco, CA 2024 Nature/Nurture, Roll Up Project, Oakland, CA 2024 Wheel of Fortune, George Adams Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2020 Here to Returnity, Qualia Contemporary, Palo Alto, CA 2019 A+P+I Exhibition, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA 2018 My Best Unbeaten Sister, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2017 Hello Cruel World, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2017 Heroes for Ghosts, Fourth Wall Gallery, Oakland, CA 2016 Around the Corner, Oakland Museum of Contemporary Art, Oakland, CA (6-month video installation) 2016 Cries and Whispers, (2-person show) Sonoma State University Art Gallery, Rohnert Park, CA 2016 The Keys to the City, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM 2015 Both on Earth, The Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2014 To Live Outside the Law, You Must Be Honest, ProArts Gallery, Oakland, CA 2014 Born on Pangea, Los Medanos College Art Gallery, Pittsburg, CA 2011 R WE MAKIN IT ? A&C Gallery, Berkeley, CA 2008 She Plays Her Self, A&C Gallery, Berkeley, CA GROUP SHOWS 2024 Phygital Care, Root Division, San Francisco, CA 2024 Homebody, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA 2024 Odd, Inspired, & Sublime, The Fourth Wall Gallery, Oakland, CA 2024 Homecourt, Guerrero Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2024 Shed Light, Yucca Outlet, San Francisco CA 2023 5 x 5, Arion Press Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2023 More is More, Hothouse Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2022 A Perfect Day, A Perfect Day Foundation, Amsterdam, NL 2022 Indecent Exposure, BG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2 021 Shapeshifters, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY 2021 Little Ritual, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA 2020 Admirational Invitational, Studio e Gallery, Seattle, WA 2020 Incline Gallery x an.ä.log, an.ä.log Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2020 Stimulus, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2020 Coup D’oeil (A Glimpse), Glass Rice Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2019 Sharks, SWIM Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2019 Our Thoughts and Prayers Are with You, Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel, CA 2019 Face to Face, The Fourth Wall Gallery, Oakland, CA 2018 Known/Unknown, New York Studio School Gallery, New York, NY 2018 Bay Area Now 8, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA 2018 Female Trouble, CULT aimee friberg exhibitions, San Francisco, CA 2018 Face Forward: Self-Image & Self-Worth, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA 2018 Eight at the Fourth, Fourth Wall Gallery, Oakland, CA 2018 40 by 40, Sonoma State University Art Gallery, Rohnert Park, CA 2018 The House Plant Show, SWIM Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2017 The True Stories Project: Exploitation and Empowerment, Patan Museum, Patan, Nepal 2016 F*ck U! In the Most Loving Way, Northern California Women's Caucus for the Arts, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2016 Non Non Violence, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2016 WILD/MIND, Gear Box Gallery, Oakland, CA 2016 Welcome to the Leftt Coast, The Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2016 She Moonage Daydream, CULT aimee friberg exhibitions, San Francisco, CA 2016 Art Show, Adobe Books Backroom Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2016 Lewd, Joy Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2 015 SWIM1, New Image Art, Los Angeles, CA 2015 Urban Flux at SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY 2014 Naivism, Galerie Wolfsen, Aalborg, Denmark 2014 Reconnaissance, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA 2013 Cajun Rice, 457 Haight, A Luggage Store Satellite Project, San Francisco, CA 2013 Art of Zine, Anno Domini, San Jose, CA 2013 Father Tween and The Holy Zine, Sicky Nar Nar, Savannah, GA 2013 Read All Over, Oceana Art Gallery, Pacifica, CA 2012 Small Works, Roscoe Contemporary, Oakland, CA 2012 Art as a Liminal Space, A&C Gallery, Berkeley, CA 2011 Emerging Artists Exhibition, University Art Gallery at Cal State EB, Hayward, CA 2010 My Favorite Rapper, Lobot Gallery, Oakland, CA 2009 Death is Easy, Humor is Hard, Red Door Gallery, Oakland, CA 2008 4 X 4, A&C Gallery, Berkeley, CA BIBLIOGRAPHY 2025 Tamsin Smith, Cate White Turns the Beat Around @ Small Works Projects, Juxtapoz, February 2025. 2025 Brian Karl, Funny and Smart Takes On Looking at Men With a ‘70s Vibe, Observer, February 2025. 2024 Mark Van Proyen, “Cate White @ George Adams,” Square Cylinder, June 2024. 2019 Maria Porges, “Cate White Exposes Her Truth,” Visual Art Source, September 2019. 2019 Derek Conrad Murray and Soraya Murray, “Cate White @ Mills,” Square Cylinder, August 2019. 2019 Jonathan Curiel, “YBCA’s Bay Area Now 8 Is Unafraid of the IntersecUon of Race and Class,” SF Weekly, January, 2019. 2017 New American Pain=ngs 133, Pacific Coast, December 2017, Vol. 22, Issue 6, 150-153. 2017 Interview with AusUn McManus, “Countering the Cultural Trance of Normal,” Juxtapoz Magazine, July 2017, 99-105. 2017 Kyler Ernst, “FiguraUvely Speaking: Cate White Says Hello,” Medium, June 2017, medium.com/@kyler.ernst/figuraUvely-speaking-cate-white-says-hello-e4e3b4814e82 2016 Diane Armitage, “Cate White: The Keys to the City,” The Magazine, Santa Fe, NM, Dec/Jan 2016/17, 53. 2016 ChrisUna Stock, “ArUst Spotlight: The Keys to the City,” Vision Magazine, July 2016, 12. 2016 Colombia Poetry Review, “6 Images by Cate White,” Chicago, IL, Spring 2016, No. 29. 65-70. 2015 Jessica Zack, “Cate White: Outsider No Longer,” San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, CA, October 2015. 2015 Arisa White, “(Mis)Fits: The NarraUve Disobedience of Cate White’s Both on Earth,” exhibiUon text, August 2015, The Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA. 2014 John Rapko, “Cate White: An Art of Encounter,” catalogue essay for solo exhibiUon To Live Outside the Law You Must Be Honest, July 2014, ProArts 2x2 Solos, Oakland, CA. LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS 2024 Guest Artist, Bad Art at All Out Comedy Theatre, Oakland, CA 2024 Panelist, The Side Woo at ICA, Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA 2024 Guest Artist, Santa Rosa Junior College Visiting Artist Lectures, Santa Rosa, CA 2021 Guest Artist-Teacher, CSU Summer Arts Advanced Painting Master Class, Fresno State University, Fresno CA 2020 Visiting Artist Lecture/Critiques, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA 2019 Visiting Artist Lecture/Critiques, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA 2016 Visiting Artist Lecture/Critiques, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC 2016 Visiting Artist Lecture/Graduate CriUques, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 2015 In Conversation with Ma` Gonzalez, The Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2015 Guest Lecturer, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA 2014 Headlands Center for the Arts presentation, private residence, San Francisco, CA 2014 Guest Lecturer, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA |
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TRANSMISSION GALLERY
OAKLAND 770 West Grand Ave., Suite A, Oakland, CA 94612 Open Thurs-Sat, 12 to 5 pm and by appointment Closed Dec 25 and Jan 1 Accessibility: This a 2nd floor art gallery, accessible by stairs |
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