Austin Martin White, dissociation (casta), 2023
Austin Martin White (b. 1984, Detroit, Michigan)
Austin Martin White is an artist living and working in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He holds a BFA from The Cooper Union and earned an MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College.
Working with a variety of mediums including rubber, acrylic, spray-paint, vinyl, 3m reflective fabric and screen mesh mediums, White creates paintings and works on paper that investigate representations of historical memory, drawing on archival research that addresses issues of identity, race and postcolonialism.
White’s work has appeared in numerous publications including Artforum, Texte zur Kunst, Flash Art, 032c and The Observer, among others.
White will have his first solo exhibition at Petzel Gallery’s Upper East Side location in September 2023, alongside a simultaneous solo show at Derek Eller Gallery. White had his first solo exhibition at Capitain Petzel in Berlin in 2022. He has also shown in group exhibitions at And Now in Dallas, at Derek Eller Gallery in New York alongside artist Kathia St. Hilaire, as well as at T293 in Rome, Italy and at Y2K group in New York.
While a diversity of histories glints in the surfaces, tools, and imagery he employs (the colonial brutality underlying rubber extraction, to name another), White is simultaneously bent, it seems, on creative misuse, a kind of formal decolonization.
Martin Herbert, Artforum
Austin Martin White
after María Barreda (casta)
2023
Acrylic medium, pigment, spray paint, vinyl, glow-in-dark fabric and nylon mesh
82 x 72 inches
208.3 x 182.9 cm
Austin Martin White
dissociation (casta)
2023
Acrylic medium, pigment, spray paint, vinyl, 3m reflective fabric, nylon mesh
82 x 72 inches
208.3 x 182.9 cm
Austin Martin White
Two framed works (casta)
2023
Acrylic medium, pigment, spray paint, vinyl, 3m reflective fabric, nylon mesh
82 x 72 inches
208.3 x 182.9 cm
Austin Martin White
(last)Bacchanal ii (soundalarm) after B. Thompson
2022
Jute, rubber, pigment, vinyl, spray paint, screen mesh
96 x 114.2 inches
243.8 x 290.1 cm
Austin Martin White
lyftoutofcrisis
2022
3m reflective material, rubber, pigment, vinyl, graphite, spray paint, screen mesh
96 x 96 inches
243.8 x 243.8 cm
Austin Martin White
Nophotography
2021
Watercolor, ink, rubber, pigment and screen mesh on paper
63.4 x 48.6 inches
161 x 123.4 cm
Austin Martin White
gatekeeping (ClubClimateChange)
2021
Watercolor, ink, screen mesh, graphite, rubber on paper
77 x 56.1 inches
195.6 x 142.5 cm
Austin Martin White
Untitled (Fragments of the Baptist War)
2020
Linen, rubber, graphite, pigment, vinyl, screen mesh
78 1/4 x 50 1/4 x 1 3/4 inches
198.8 x 127.6 x 4.4 cm
Austin Martin White
anotherway
2018
Screen mesh, rubber, pigment, acrylic
96.5 x 95.7 inches
245.1 x 243.1 cm
Austin Martin White
In the rubber coils
2020
Burlap, pigment, rubber, screen mesh, vinyl
42.9 x 27 inches
109 x 68.6 cm
Austin Martin White
moonmom
2020
Jute, vinyl screen, 3m reflective fabric, rubber, pigment, graphite
78 x 50 inches
198.1 x 127 cm
Austin Martin White
Untitled
2023
Ink on paper
40 x 35 inches
101.6 x 88.9 cm
Austin Martin White
Untitled
2023
Ink on paper
36 x 34 inches
91.4 x 86.4 cm
Installation view, Austin Martin White, Last Dance, Capitain Petzel, Berlin, 2022
Installation view, Austin Martin White, Last Dance, Capitain Petzel, Berlin, 2022
Installation view, Austin Martin White, Last Dance, Capitain Petzel, Berlin, 2022
Installation view, Austin Martin White, Last Dance, Capitain Petzel, Berlin, 2022
Installation view, Austin Martin White, Last Dance, Capitain Petzel, Berlin, 2022
Installation view, Austin Martin White, Last Dance, Capitain Petzel, Berlin, 2022
Installation view, Austin Martin White, Last Dance, Capitain Petzel, Berlin, 2022
Installation view, Austin Martin White, Last Dance, Capitain Petzel, Berlin, 2022
Installation view, Austin Martin White, Last Dance, Capitain Petzel, Berlin, 2022
Installation view, Austin Martin White, Last Dance, Capitain Petzel, Berlin, 2022
Installation view, Austin Martin White, Last Dance, Capitain Petzel, Berlin, 2022
Installation view, Austin Martin White, Last Dance, Capitain Petzel, Berlin, 2022
Installation view, Austin Martin White, Last Dance, Capitain Petzel, Berlin, 2022
