Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

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An Evening with Pae White

Wed, November 6, 2024
Dinner Program
Pae White

Pae White makes artwork that emerges from material experimentation, an approach that often pairs high tech and artisanal craft to ephemeral objects and quotidian subjects. Over the past decades she has created an expansive body of work that includes sculpture, painting, site-specific installation, furniture, architecture, and graphic design. Her subjects and imagery might include smoke, color, popcorn, time, plants, moonlight, birdcalls, bugs, and clip art—elements that inspire her “exploration of the neglected, the forgotten, the spaces between things.” Common materials are often used to uncommon ends, for example in the way the artist has made artworks with neon, ceramic, string, birdseed, and glass. In 2023 CMC added White’s Qwalala, an extraordinary glass sculpture, to its campus public art collection.  Join internationally recognized artist Pae White who will discuss her work known for blurring the traditional and often nebulous boundaries between the fine and applied arts, architecture and design. 

Note: A special reception for this event will take place at 5:30 PM at Pae White’s sculpture Qwalala, in CMC's Mid-Quad. At 5:50, registered dinner attendees will move to Eggert Dining Room in the Athenaeum for dinner. The talk, open to the public, will begin at 6:45 PM.

Born in Pasadena, Pae White is a resident of Los Angeles, White received an MFA from Art Center College of Design and studied at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan, Maine, after receiving her bachelor’s degree from Scripps College in 1985. White’s work has recently been featured in solo exhibitions at Elvira Gonzalez, Madrid, Spain (2024) and Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, CA (2023). White has created major public art works worldwide for the Oslo Opera House, Norway and Los Angeles International Airport among many others. Her works are part of prominent public collections such as the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; Tate Modern, London; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; SFMOMA; MAK, Vienna; The Art Institute of Chicago; and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.

This event is co-sponsored by the CMC Public Art Program and Scripps Fine Arts Foundation.

Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum

Claremont McKenna College
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Claremont, CA 91711

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