Whitney Nye

Portland artist Whitney Nye explores composition through gesture and the intersection of texture and color. In this exhibition she steps away from the mixed media collage of recent shows, and presents an energetic series of abstract oil paintings that suggest movement and light. Speaking about the new direction her work is taking, Nye says this is “a departure from my meditative, collage style work of the past few years, moving into more abstraction, a more kaleidoscopic approach. These paintings have a few or many layers, stories hide underneath, but what you see is the captured abstraction, the still of an animated surface. With this process, I feel more light and tranquility.” The paintings themselves shimmer with that light and share some of the tranquility the artist is finding.