
Matter of Fact
Lindsey White
Eli Ridgway Gallery, San Francisco · December 15, 2012 – January 26, 2013
Through video, photography, and sculpture, Lindsey White models a type of sight gag index, working with the language of magic and comedy to challenge ordinary perceptions by presenting the unexpected and impossible. Like a good joke, her work pits cartoonish occurrence against the mundane physicality of everyday life.
The exhibition is populated by perfectly broken windows, flawless spills, Hollywood props, dance strobes, and levitating fastballs — an approachable entry point that initially masks the work's mischievousness and complexity. Both intimate and laughable, White's work exists in a world where life and art are clearly in slapstick harmony with one another.
Works in the exhibitionSeven works · click to enlarge

12 Cartoon Breaks

Strobes

The Comedian’s Stool

Breaking Glass

Levitating Fastball

3 Color Method

Spilled Shirt
Press
“The smirking ghost of Marcel Duchamp hovers benignly over … White’s show at Ridgway.”