http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/2010Biennial/PaeWhite Recent or recently updated pages on the Whitney Museum of American Art website &copy; 2012 Whitney Museum of American Art en-us Economy <p><font color="#7f7f7f">Exhibitions/2010Biennial/PaeWhite</font></p> <p><a href="http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/2010Biennial/PaeWhite"><img border="0" src="/image_columns/0015/1326/blank_319.png" /></a></p> <div><p>Ignoring traditional boundaries between the applied and fine arts, Pae White encourages viewers to take a deeper look at familiar encounters and ordinary objects. In 2006, White began creating tapestries with photographic images of crumpled aluminum foil and plumes of smoke. <i>Still, Untitled</i>, one of her most recent smoke tapestries, stages what White describes as the cotton&rsquo;s &ldquo;dream of becoming something other than itself&rdquo; by contrasting an image of something immaterial with the physicality of fabric. This vision of an ephemeral moment suspended in space&mdash;the slight and fleeting unfurling of smoke monumentalized in the heroic tradition of tapestries&mdash;transforms an everyday image into a seductive evocation of transience and longing.</p></div> Whitney Museum of American Art Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:46:22 -0400 http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/2010Biennial/PaeWhite http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/2010Biennial/PaeWhite