- Ed Whitmore -
Ed Whitmore has always had a backward glance, which probably developed as a result of his parents violent uprooting from their lives in Poland during World War Two. When he was a young man, he developed an interest in ancient civilizations, cave art, ancient cairns and Earth Mother Goddess sites, which all served to reinforce his yearning for a lost past.
This mindset is reflected in his choice of medium - the evocative build-up of patina that develops as a result of the oxidation of iron copper and bronze metal effects paint. For the close observer, sombre themes of decay and loss can be found in many of his pieces.
Artist Statement
I use materials borrowed from reality, playfully reversing their traditional use. What is usually thrown away is for me an opportunity for art and an ecological and polemical choice towards society, in search of new authenticity and a new way of narrating the present and meeting others.
I am currently exploring the language and theme of the house, a physical place and space of the soul with ready-made installations and objects, and the relationships with and between its inhabitants.
Food containers or boxes have become dwellings and scenarios for miniature people who are thus able to recount, with out-of-scale objects and through symbols and metaphors, the dreams, desires, expectations - and problems - of the whole of humanity.
Biography
Ed had the good fortune to view the Mark Rothko retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in New York when he was in his early 20s. While contemplating Rothko’s enormous color field paintings, Ed was enthralled, found himself lost in spiritual reverie and experienced an ineffable sense of the sublime. This experience left a lasting impression on him and has had an enduring influence on his art. Ed seeks to capture some of that sense of awe that Rothko’s work evokes and create paintings that transcend the familiar and the merely decorative.
Solo Exhibitions:
October 2018 Ashton Gallery San Diego, CA
May 2019 – October 2019 Lofts on Laurel San Diego, CA
February 2020 – August 2020 State/Oak Carlsbad, CA
April – May 2021 Gallerie Valerie Crockett, CA
May – August 2022 Passaic County Arts Center Hawthorne, NJ
October 2002 Summer 2022 Exhibizone
December 2022 Shogun Sushi Carmichael, CA
December 2022 Southpointe HOA conference room La Jolla, CA
Group Exhibitions, Competitions & Curatorial Projects:
2023
January 2023 Quasar ART Matters AVA Community Art Center Gillette, WY
January 2023 In the Bewitching Hour Blue Hour Intersect Arts Center St Louis, MO
January 2023 Jubilant Happiness Exhibizone
January 2023 All That Jazz Celebrate Art Las Laguna Art Gallery CA
January 2023 Deadvlei Astonish Magazine, Issue 30
February 2023 Evanescent Ice Floes Abstract Painting Global Painting Conclave
February 2023 Origins of the Universe Shapes and Colors Gallerium
February 2023 Underground Aquifer Aqua Gallerium
February 2023 Jubilant California Art League Thousand Oaks Community Art Gallery
March 2023 Convergence Colors Gallerium
March 2023 Earth Mother Goddess the Sacred Feminine Ludington Center for the Arts MI
March 2023 Five Chimneys 2023 Indoor Down East Sculpture Exhibit Emerge Gallery Greenville, NC
March 2023 Jubilant Kinetic Cultural Center of Cape Cod S. Yarmouth, MA
March 2023 Earth Mother Goddess shrine Woman HMVC Gallery New York, NY
March 2023 Jerusalem at Sunset Environments Kavanaugh Gallery St Charles, IL
March 2023 Earth Mother Goddess shrine Woman 2023 Diversia
March 2023 All that Jazz Femina-2023 Gallerium
March 2023 Evanescent Ice Floes Jubilant Furry Friends Red Bluff Gallery
March 2023 All That Jazz Under the Sea Statuesque Hittite Winged Demons In my View Gallery Omata May 2023 Beach Detritus aka Yoga on the Beach Prague International Juried Art Exhibition
April 2023 Lake Powell Variations Marblehead Arts Association MA
May 2023 Burden of Time Art from Detritus Virdian Artists New York, NY
2022
January 2022 Jubilant Blue Notes Debut Southern Tier Artists Chattaqua, NY
January 2022 Jubilant Jazz California Dreams California Art League Burbank, CA
January 2022 Under the Sea Hall of Bulls Colors of Humanity
January 2022 Convergence In Flux Colors Art Room Online
January – February 2021 Hall of Bulls My Favorite Grosse Pointe Artists Assn Detroit, Mi
January – February 2022 Venus Arising Beneath the Surface Oceanside Museum Artist Alliance
January-February 2022 Hall of Bulls Magnum Opus Sacramento Fine Arts
January – February 2022 Convergence A Perfect Moment Cultural Center of Cape Cod MA
February 2022 Blue Notes Ephemera Art Room Contemporary Art
February 2022 Beach at Sunset Quasar Jones Gallery Kansas City, MO
February – March 2022 Tree of Life True Beauty Gallerium
February – March 2022 Storm Approaching 13th Biennial National Visual Arts Center Punta Gorda, FL February – March 2022 Eye of the Beholder Two Art on 30th San Diego, CA
March – May 2022 Tree of Life Renewal Oceanside Museum – Front Porch Gallery Carlsbad, CA
March 2022 Tree in Winter Winter Magic Cultural Center of Cape Cod MA
March 2022 Perseverance Artstonish
March 2022 Tree in Winter Exhibizone
March 2022 Blue Notes Jubilant Evanescent Ice Floes Climb online art gallery
March 2022 Convergence Quasar Art Room Contemporary Online Gallery
April 2022 – June 2022 Blue Notes Variations Marblehead Arts Association MA
June 2022 Antediluvian Doors Golden – 50 and over Las Lagunas Gallery CA
July – September 2022 Tree in Winter Close to Home Old Town Arts & Crafts Guild Cutchoge, NY
August 2022 All That Jazz Circle Foundation for the Arts Spotlight magazine
August – October 2022 Deadvlei All That Jazz Statuesque Ground Floor Artists Surprise, AZ
October 2022 Deadvlei 56th Mother Lode Show Placerville Arts Rancho Cordova, CA
September 2022 Evanescent Ice Floes Jubilant Abstract Expressions Red Bluff Art Corning, CA
September 2022 Tree of Life (bas relief) Trees Leaves Flowers Plantarium
October 2022 All that Jazz Beach Detritus Pure Enjoyment 2022 Springfield Art Council MO
October 2022 Deadvlei Five Senses Loft Gallery Alpena, MI
October 2022 All that Jazz Statuesque Mankind/Nature California Art league
November 2022 Evanescent Ice Floes Abstract Intentions Northern California Arts
November 2022 Evanescent Ice Floes Abstract Exhibition Artist Space Gallery online
December 2022 Under the Sea Outstanding Las Laguna Art Gallery CA
December 2022 The Old Barn Emptiness Exhibizone
December 2022 Tree of Life Planetarium Gallerium
2021
January 2021 Square Diamond Jones Gallery Kansas City, MO
January – March 2021 Hall of Bul Arts Association of Marblehead MA
January 2021 Ephemeral Vancouver Art Space WA
February 2021 After the Storm Mayan Blue Jones Gallery Kansas City, MO
February 2021 Ephemera J Grosse Pointe Artists Assn MI
February 2021 Fortitude Sebastopol Center for the Arts CA
February 2021 Beach at Sunset Las Lagunas Gallery Laguna Beach, CA
March 2021 Convergence 311 Gallery Raleigh, NC
April 2021 Earth Mother Goddess Las Lagunas Gallery Laguna Beach, CA
April 2021 Cryptic Message Hilliard Gallery Kansas City, MO
April – May 2021 Tree of Life Sebastopol Center for the Arts CA
May – June 2021 Hall of Bulls Under the Sea Evanescent Ice Floes Melvin Gallery Lakeland, FL
May-June 2021 Convergence Tree of Life Spring Forward Rhode Island Water Color Society Pawtucket, RI
June 2021 Tree of Life Radiant Tree Under the Sea Celebrating 3D Art Southern California Regional
June 2021 Under the Sea Modern Visual Arts Gallery Bethlehem, PA
June-July 2021 Convergence Shoreline Arts Festival Lake Forest Park, WA
July – August 2021 Rainy Day at the Beach Beach Detritus Life’s a Beach Port St Joe Center for the Arts FL June – August 2021 Jubilant Flagler County Art League Palm Coast, FL
June – August 2021 Beach at Sunset Guilded Gallery Stanwood, WA
July – August 2021 Convergence Expressions 2021 Marin Arts Society CA
July 2021 Jubilant Artistonish: Discover the Artist Biafarin online gallery
July 2021 Hall of Bulls Las Laguna Gallery Laguna Beach, CA
August 2021 Dancing Hittite Winged Demons Art on 30th San Diego, CA
August – September 2021 Evanescent Ice Floes Shifting Tides Columbia City Gallery Seattle, WA
August 2021 Convergence Eye of the Beholder Cultural Center of Cape Cod MA
August – September 2021 Convergence Jubilant Evanescent Ice Floes Medford Art Center NJ
August – September 2021 Jubilant National Society of Artists online show
September 2021 Radiant Tree Emptiness Exhibition zone Biafarin online gallery
September 2021 Shibui Art of Japan Medford Art Center Medford, NJ
September 2021 Solo Exhibition Exhibizone Biafarin online gallery
September 2021 Art Deco Wilson Arts Center Wilson, NC
September 2021 Hall of Bulls Earth Mother Goddess Sources of Inspiration Old Town Arts Cutchogue, NY
September 2021 Hall of Bulls Icons Las Laguna Gallery Laguna Beach, CA
September 2021 Convergence Abstracted Art Fluent MA
September 2021 Gravitational Effects Earth Mother Goddess Tree of Life Lotus 2021 Climb gallery
October 2021 Jubilant Grey Cube
September 2021 Evanescent Ice Floes Corporate Connections Maryland Fine Arts Annapolis, MD
September – October 2021 Approaching Storm In Color Cape Cod Cultural Center S Yarmouth, MA
September – October 2021 Jubilant Exhibizone Summer 2021 Biafarin online gallery
October-November 2021 Hittite Winged Demons Happiness Exhibizone
October – November 2021 Gravitational Effects Not Really Tall Grass Arts Association Park Forest, IL
October 2021 Under the Sea Radiant Tree Pure Enjoyment Springfield Regional Arts Council MO
October 2021 Hall of Bulls Las Laguna Gallery Laguna Beach, CA
October 2021 Rings of Saturn Autumn Rowayton Arts Center CT
October 2021 Rings of Saturn Open Theme/All Media Las Laguna Gallery Laguna Beach, CA
October – November 2021 Beach Detritus 2.0 Untitled Athens Arts Gallery Crawfordsville, IN
October – November 2021 Tree of Life Under the Sea Delights and Shadows California Art League
October – November 2021 Under the Sea Off the Easel Art on 30th San Diego, CA
October-November 2021 Lit from Within Luminosity B Extraordinaire St Louis, MO
October – November 2021 Blue Notes Mother Lode Art Exhibition Placerville Arts Association CA
October – November 2021 Jubilant Convergence Shades of Blue Art Room Contemporary Online Gallery
October – December 2021 Ephemera Reimagine North Winds Fine Arts Saranac Lake, NY
November 2021 Earth Mother Goddess Primal Disposition Vestige Concept Gallery Pittsburgh, PA
November 2021 Tree in Winter Radiant Tree Tree of Life at Dusk Climb Online Art Gallery
November – December 2021 Earth Mother Goddess Spot On D’Art Gallery Longmont, CO
November – December 2021 Hall of Bulls Indigenous Northern Waters Resort Watersmeet, MI
November – December 2021 Sublime ICON exhibition d’Art Center Norwalk, VA
November 2021 – January 2022 Rainy Day at the Beach Santa Cruz Art League CA
November – March 2021 Gravitational Effects Ephemera Biafarin online gallery
December 2021 Notched and Splattered Winter 2021 Art in the Loft Alpene, MI
December 2021 Beach Detritus Convergence Ephemera International Art Fair Gallery Margo NY,NY
December 2021 Tree of Life Botanical Art and Illustration Las Laguna Gallery CA
December 2021 Convergence A Perfect Moment Cultural Center of Cape Cod S Yarmouth, MA
December 2021 – January 2022 Convergence State of the Arts Ithaca, NY
December 2021 – January 2022 In Flux Exceptional Abstractions Mona Niko Gallery Mission Viejo, CA
2020
September 2020 Hidden Message Art on 30th San Diego, CA
October 2020 Under the Sea Jones Gallery Kansas City, MO
October 2020 Tree of Life #2 Las Laguna Gallery Laguna Beach, CA
October 2020 Venus Rising CaFE Summer 2020 Online Art Call
November 2020 Deep Space Art on 30th San Diego, CA
November 2020 Approaching Storm Cape Cod Cultural Center S. Yarmouth, MA
November – December 2020 Tree of Life Mt Si Artist Guild WA
November 2020 Night Sky Cool Fire #1 and #2 Las Laguna Gallery Laguna Beach, CA
December 2020 Underground Aquifer Beach Detritus Jones Gallery Kansas City, MO
December 2020 Tree in Winter Art on 30th San Diego, CA
Awards
2022
January 2022 Storm Approaching Honorable Mention Colourful Gallery Ring
February 2022 Ephemera Honorable Mention Northern Waters Resort Watersmeet, MI
July 2022 Beach Detritus Diamond Award Colours Gallery Ring online
July 2022 Radiant Tree Honorable Mention Boyer Foundation New York, NY
August 2022 Deadvlei Merit Award Nature Gallery Ring
August 2022 Statuesque Talent Prize Art Show International
September - October 2022 Deadvlei People’s Choice award Northern California Arts
September 2022 Deadvlei 5th place American Art Awards
September – October 2022 Radiant Tree Grand Prize Exhibition Zone
October 2022 Under the Sea Finalist Nature Global Painting Conclave
November 2022 Jersualem at Sunset Finalist Landscapes Global Painting Conclave
2021
June-July 2021 Under the Sea Honorable Mention Marine Show Stamford, CT
July 2021 Jubilant Honorable Mention Boyer Foundation New York, NY
August 2021 Evanescent Ice Floes Honorable Mention Grey Cube
September – October 2021 After the Storm Honorable Mention Art in the Loft Alpena, MI
October 2021 Ephemera 1st Place Peninsula Art League Gig Harbor, WA
October 2021 Convergence Tree of Life Merit Award Gallery Ring
November 2021 Ephemera Honorable Mention Gallery Ring
December 2021 Tree of Life Bronze Award Camelback Gallery
December 2021 Rustic Tree 2nd Place Colorful Abstractions Fusion.com
December 2021 In Flux Honorable Mention Grey Cube Gallery
Selected Collections:
March 2023 Yoga on the Beach Magnum Opus Sacramento Center for the Arts
December 2022 Serenity Deadvlei All that Jazz Longboard Tree in Winter Biafarin Awards
November 2022 Under the Sea Limitless Federation of Canadian Artists
November 2022 Storm Approaching Best American Talent The Holy Art London, England
September 2022 Deadvlei San Diego Museum of Art Artist Guild CA
July 2022 Beach Detritus Blue Notes Convergence Under the Sea Dancing Hittite gods Unity The Holy Art Gallery London England
February 2022 – February 2023 Featured Artist Circle Arts Foundation
November 2021 Under the Sea Tree of Life Biafarin Awards
August 2021 In the Bewitching Hour SoCal’s Best: Upstarts & Innovators Escondido, CA
August – September 2021 Jubilant National Society of Artists
July 2021 Hall of Bulls On the Edge Federation of Canadian Artists
April – May 2021 Under the Sea Earth Mother Goddess Hall of Bulls Approaching Storm Venus Rising Cosmopolitan Art Fair Gallery Margo New York, NY
January 2021 Jerusalem at Sunset Artists Guild San Diego Museum of Art
October 2020 Hall of Bulls Featured Artist The Magazine of Contemporary Art