Artists

Steven White

Steven White is a print maker and multi-media artist whose works are held in numerous public and private collections including the Bank of Montreal, National Bank of Canada and the Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery. Recent exhibitions include the Wilfred Grenfell College Art Gallery, University of Newfoundland and Anchor Graphics, Chicago, USA. White is scheduled to have a solo exhibition at the Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound in 2007.

"Through printmaking and photography, I investigate new potentials and meanings inherent within found objects that I encounter. The found item becomes a springboard to launch the creative process. Notes, diagrams, drawings and related findings are all part of this visual discussion. The main objective in my work is not to present a resolved answer, but to ask questions around issues of obsolescence and consumerism and to challenge common conceptions of beauty.

Decomposition is a powerful transformative process that tends to get overlooked in today's way of being. Our society is constantly bombarding us with messages that youthful beauty and newness are not only desirable, but are the standards by which we should structure our lives. I am contrasting this in my work by showing that beauty can lie within the things we throw away or consider banal. I see myself in the role of the turkey vulture in my attraction to the "roadkill" of our culture's waste."