Minnesota-based painter T. White has made the elusive transition from corporate designer to independent artist, but has retained his former profession's flair for reliable style and clarity. His paintings use bold colors and intricate jostling of small forms to reinvigorate familiar myths, conventions and archetypes. Working in bright yellows, reds and blues, White gives weighty and ominous narratives overriding hues of exuberance and playfulness through consistently stylized aesthetics. At times, the effect is not unlike seeing Greek mythology as if being portrayed by early Expressionists. Space is distorted, features are exaggerated and streamlined, allowing room for a nuanced mode of storytelling wherein shorthand tableaus articulate entire narratives.

It is as though White were adapting mythic stories with his own actors, sets and costumes, favoring warm hues of orange, red and yellow, with strong lines dissecting objects into constituent geometrical shapes. Throughout, he makes a familiar artistic mode unique and highly individuated. The subjects may be familiar but, re-worked through White's unique style, they take on renewed vitality.