We have a wonderful new monograph of artist Wayne White in stock. ‘Maybe now I’ll get the respect I so richly deserve’, By Todd Oldham.
It comes in two versions – the basic book for £44.95 or the boxed version with a signed & numbered limited edition print (3 to choose from). There are only 250 copies of each. £200.
Wayne White
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”.
More recently he has concentrated on his painting career. He takes cheap 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.
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