James White House Plant Paintings

James White House Plant Paintings marks the artist's debut exhibition with the gallery and the first exhibition in New York for the artist since 2016. This exhibition brings together eleven paintings from the artist's newest House Plant (H.P.) series. Known for exploring the potential of painting to recast everyday objects in quietly strange and charged scenes, James White turns to the motif of the house plant as a metaphor for observation and complicity. Through paintings that invite stillness and scrutinization, James White attempts to bring contrast to the unabated tumult of visual content in the modern age. At first, the familiar image of the house plant seems simple and banal. But to White, the house plant is a silent witness to the rhythms of shared lives and dramas of habituation. In these works, the slow growth and dependable presence of the plant is painted against the environs of volatile, transforming narratives. The images cannot be quickly consumed, but instead require slow consideration of the quiet tensions embedded in the ordinary.