Eric White

The first comprehensive and long-overdue monograph of popular rising-star alternative visual artist Eric White, a darling of the Juxtapoz crowd, containing many previously unpublished new works. Eric White generates a world of masterfully executed, surreal figurative painting. His work is inspired by cinema—the golden age of directors David Lynch and Charlie Kaufman—and a pop culture washed through satire: a fantastical schizophrenic dream logic. White’s name is now mentioned alongside other celebrated alternative-gone-mainstream canonical artists such as Mark Ryden, Ron English, and Robert Williams.
This book covers the breadth of his career, from his earliest acrylics and works on paper to his subverted “album-cover art” to the work he describes as paranoid social realism: a window into an invented alternate Hollywood and world around us, one that is stretched, distorted, dark, and extremely witty.

Eric White received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1990. White has served as adjunct professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York since 2006. In 2010, White received a Painting Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Daniel Rounds is a labor activist and a poet. Peter Coyote is an actor, author, director, and screenwriter.Anthony Haden-Guest is a British-American writer, reporter, cartoonist, art critic, poet, and socialite.Robert Flynn Johnson is Curator Emeritus of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and an author.Ivan Quaroni is an art critic and curator.