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    Platform The Armory Show 2023

    September 8-10, 2023

    Jessica Silverman is pleased to participate in the fair’s Platform section curated by Eva Respini, with four monumental tapestries by Pae White as well as Woody De Othello’s latest large-scale and freestanding bronze sculpture, thought in mind (2023).

    Othello’s large-scale bronze sculpture thought in mind stands nearly seven feet tall. A rotary telephone receiver and comb crafted in bronze to an inflated size lean against one another, as if to support the weight of their shared domestic roles. Othello’s practice questions how human experiences are manifested through the objects that surround us. Playful and surreal in scale, these tools and technologies extend our physical forms to create tender moments of connection.
    Woody De Othello (b. 1991, Miami) holds an MFA from the California College of Arts, San Francisco and BFA from Florida Atlantic University. His work is in the permanent collections of Whitney Museum of American Art; Pérez Art Museum Miami; ICA, Miami; SFMOMA, San Francisco; Seattle Art Museum; LACMA, Los Angeles; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; San José Museum of Art, CA; John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI; and MAXXI National Museum of 21st Century Art, Rome, Italy, and many more. Othello has exhibited widely in group exhibitions at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York; SFMOMA, San Francisco; Hayward Gallery, London; The Met, New York; Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery, Washington D.C.; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia; FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial; 33rd Ljubljana Biennial, Slovenia; and Center for Craft in Asheville, NC, among others. Large-scale public art commissions include San Francisco International Airport; de Young, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; and Cityline, Sunnyvale. He is represented by Jessica Silverman, San Francisco; Karma, New York; and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London. Othello lives and works in Oakland, CA.
    Working with a Jacquard loom to create large-scale tapestries, Pae White explores the tension between handmade and industrial processes. The loom’s invention in the 19th century allowed for the efficient reproduction of textile patterns and reduced the human labor required for production. White works against the loom’s industrial function to create intricate, and individual, designs with motifs from the natural world. Hanging close to the ground, the tapestries create an intimate architecture for the viewer to be enveloped, transforming a historical technology to create new encounters.
    Pae White (b. 1963, Pasadena, CA) received her MFA from Art Center College of Design and BA from Scripps College. She has enjoyed solo exhibitions at museums and other public institutions, including: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia; SITE, Santa Fe; Art Institute of Chicago; The Power Plant, Toronto; St. Louis Art Museum, MO; STPI, Singapore; Saarlandmuseum, Saarbrücken; MAK, Vienna; 53rd Venice Biennale; and Skulpturprojekte, Münster, among others. Her numerous commissions include major projects at the Oslo Opera House, Norway; Los Angeles International Airport; San José Museum of Art, CA; Norton Museum, West Palm Beach, FL; Swiss Re Klubhaus, Zurich; Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice; Bloomberg International Headquarters, London; and Berlin-Brandenburg Airport. White lives and works in Los Angeles.