Dimensions: 8.5 x 10 in
Pages: 112
ISBN: 978-1-941753-82-8
Published by Inventory Press
Shipping November 2025
In this monograph of recent Roger White paintings the artist returns to California for his subject matter.
"I grew up in Salinas and learned to paint by doing landscapes en plein air, so the body of work feels like an ambivalent return. Affection, distance, nostalgia, concern. Some of the scenes are personal: there’s my father, a family gathering, and friends in an apartment. Others, less so: a crowd at the beach, a scale model of a Spanish Mission, and the beaching of a whale. The backyard of the house seen from above, the one with the blue car, was my neighbors'. I took pictures when they were moving out. Dry grass, real estate, recycling bins, Honda Civic.”
–Roger White
Accompanying the images are two splendid essays by Helen Molesworth and Ross Simonini that illuminate connections and correlations that lay just beneath the surface of White’s deceptively straightforward canvases.
