MIKE WHITING

Constructed from welded steel and colored with bright automotive enamels, artist Mike Whiting creates playful sculptures drawing from the forms and imagery of early video gaming and computer graphics. Recognizing the extreme spareness
of forms inherent to the constraints of pixel-based technologies Whiting states, “video gaming and minimalism arrived at the same visual conclusion through different means and by opposite intentions.” Whiting likewise attempts to communicate as much visual information as possible with his essential forms that combine the reductive simplicity of the minimalist movement and the sensibility of pop art in re-contextualizing cultural icons.