New to the Petzel Bookstore is “Overflow, Afterglow,” the catalogue from the Jewish Museum’s recent group exhibition including artist Austin Martin White. “Overflow, Afterglow” brings together seven young artists who use color to distort the figure and expand cultural norms —whether nodding to pop culture and digital immersion, the vibrancies of their heritages, or spaces of youthful and queer liberation. Responding to the social and political turmoil of the past decade and absorbing input from different backgrounds and histories, these artists articulate new visual vocabularies. The exhibition also builds upon the Jewish Museum’s ongoing practice of exploring contemporary art in real time, providing a platform for each new generation of artists.
Contributors: Liz Munsell, Kristina Parsons, Sula Bermudez-Silverman, Sasha Gordon, Sara Issakharian, Chella Man, Ilana Savdie, Austin Martin White and Rosha Yaghmai
Publisher: Yale University Press, the Jewish Museum
Language: English
Softcover: 112 pages
8 x 10 in.
ISBN: 9780300275797
About the Artist
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.
