Whitney Biennial 2017 | Art & Artists

Floor 5

Born 1990 in Macon, GA
Lives in Brooklyn, NY

Torey Thornton employs an eclectic range of materials in his work, adopting a collage-like approach that reflects an expanded conception of painting. Occasionally incorporating fragments of plastic or wood, Thornton populates his paintings on panel with a mix of ambiguous forms, frenetic drawing, and cartoonish objects, all suspended within a purposefully indeterminate pictorial space. When hung on a wall, Thornton’s work hovers between painting and sculpture, and also alludes to ideas about intimacy, gender, and the body.