Whitney Bedford

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Whitney Bedford (born Elizabeth Whitney Bedford on March 11, 1976, Baltimore, Maryland) is an American artist based in Los Angeles.

She received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design [1] in 1998, had a Fulbright grant in Berlin, Germany from 1998-2000, and received her MFA from UCLA [2] in 2003.

She is represented by Art:Concept [3] in Paris and Cherry And Martin [4] in Los Angeles.

Whitney Bedford is painter who mainly produces images of sailing ships in various configurations. The boats are merely a conduit for Bedford to explore the nature of painting, allowing her to investigate form, colour and mark-making from a standardised point of departure. That is not to say that the ships are entirely without significance, taking her lead from a very specific style of academic painting Bedford is able to conjure a certain nostalgic heroic romance particularly resonant in maritime landscapes and shift this trait so that it comes to bear upon the struggle between abstraction and figuration, gesture and control, rather than on man’s battle with the sea. It seems as though the progression of each painting determines the course of its own narrative, the fate of the vessels it depicts left up to a combination of aesthetic sensibility and the suitability of various painterly attributes. In this way, Bedford has transformed a genre more or less completely overlooked within contemporary painting into something very timely.

1 Solo Exhibitions
2 Group Exhibitions
3 Honors
4 External links

[edit] Solo Exhibitions

2006: Art:Concept, Paris, France

2005: D’Amelio Terras, New York, New York

2005: cherrydelosreyes, Los Angeles, California

2004: Art:Concept, Paris, France

2000: Hotel de Ville, Biot, France

1999: Fulbright- Kommission, Berlin, Germany

1998: BEB Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island

1997: Sokolofska #124 Space, Prague, Czech Republic

[edit] Group Exhibitions

2007: The Triumph of Painting - Part 6, The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
2007: "Poker", "Monica de Cardenas Galleria", Milan, Italy
2006: Melancholia, Sommer Contemporary, Tel Aviv, Israel
2006: Step into the Liquid, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO

2005: Cut, Susanne Vielmetter LA Projects, Los Angeles, CA [5]
2005: Evidence, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
2005: The Third Peak, Art:Concept, Paris
2005: Rogue Wave, LA Louver, Venice, California (catalog)
2005: Wunderkammer 2, Nina Menocal, Mexico City, D.F.
2005: Sad Songs, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois
2005: Project Room: A Show Without Works, Spazio Lima, Milan, Italy, curator: Daniele Perra

2004: Summer group show, cherrydelosreyes, Los Angeles, California
2004: Carpet Bag and Cozyspace, Healing Arts Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2004: Rimbaud, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium

2003: Black Dragon Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2003: Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, California
2003: MFA Exhibitions show #1, UCLA New Wight Gallery/ Kinross, Los Angeles, California

1998: New England Connection, Lanning Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
1998: Woods- Gerry Invitational Exhibition, Woods- Gerry Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island
1998: Senior Painting and Ceramics, Woods- Gerry Gallery, Providence Rhode Island

1997: Innagurative Show, Space 1026 Space, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1997: RISD Junior Painters, What Cheer Studios, Providence, Rhode Island

1996: L’Ecole Nouveau de Pont- Aven (The New Pont- Aven School Painters), Hotel de Ville, Pont- Aven, France
1996: Salon de Refuses, Gallerie M, Pont- Aven, France