Wayne White (artist)
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| Wayne White | |
| Birth name | Wayne White |
| Nationality | American (United States) |
| Field | Painting, Cinema |
| Training | Middle Tennessee State University |
| Movement | Surrealism, Pop Art |
| Works | Nixon (1998) |
Wayne White is an American artist, art director, cartoonist and illustrator.
After studying at Middle Tennessee State University White went to New York City and worked as a cartoonist and illustrator for a number of publications including The East Village Eye, Raw, The New York Times and The Village Voice.
In 1986 he worked on Pee Wee's Playhouse where his work for his set and puppet designs won three Emmy awards, he also supplied a number of voices on the show. Other television credits include production and set design for Riders in the Sky, The Weird Al Show and Beakman's World.[1]
He has done the art direction on two seminal music videos, Peter Gabriel's Big Time in 1986 for which he won a Billboard award for best Art Direction in a music video. In 1996 he designed all the Georges Méliès inspired sets for the award winning video for the Smashing Pumpkins, Tonight, Tonight.
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More recently he has concentrated on his painting career. He takes, cheaply mass produced lithogaphs which he finds in secondhand thrift stores and painstakingly writes phrases or words on them in a glossy 3-D style. His works have been compared to Ed Ruscha. Arguably his most famous work is his painting Nixon, which featured as the album cover by the Lambchop album of the same name. A school friend of Lambchop's Kurt Wagner his work has featured on three other Lambchop album covers.
