Pae White is a multimedia artist whose practice transcends traditional boundaries between art, craft, and design. With a playful and poetic vision, the artist coaxes magic from ordinary materials. For her series of hyper-iridescent wall-hanging ceramics, like Buried Rainbow, White takes inspiration from various forms of mark-making, including textile patterning, Japanese basket weaving, and even typography. She employs a large array of nontraditional tools, ranging from clothes pins, batteries, and plastic forks, to make a variety of imprints. Using her signature glazing process (a PVD vacuum chamber with extreme pressure and temperature), White creates a gemstone-like surface that shifts in color as the viewer moves around the work.
Throughout her three-decade career, White (b. 1963, Pasadena, CA) has had numerous institutional shows, public art projects, and commissions. She has enjoyed solo exhibitions at museums including Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia; SITE, Santa Fe; Art Institute of Chicago; The Power Plant, Toronto; St. Louis Art Museum, MO; STPI, Singapore; Saarlandmuseum, Saarbrücken; MAK, Vienna; 53rd Venice Biennale; and Skulpturprojekte, Münster, among others. Her numerous commissions include major projects at the Oslo Opera House, Norway; Los Angeles International Airport; Berlin-Brandenburg Airport; San José Museum of Art, CA; Norton Museum, West Palm Beach, FL; Swiss Re Klubhaus, Zurich; Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice; Bloomberg International Headquarters, London; and Beverly Center, Los Angeles. White lives and works in Los Angeles.
