zeitgeist  Zeitgeist opens the Fall art season on Thursday, September 1st with new work by artists Kurt Wagner and Wayne White. World known artist, art director, and puppeteer, Wayne White, is a Chattanooga native now living in LA. White has worked as an illustrator for the East Village Eye, New York Times, Raw Magazine, and the Village Voice and in 1986. He became a designer for the hit television show Pee-wee’s Playhouse, was awarded with three Emmys, and continued to work in television and music video garnering Billboard and MTV awards. Painting is now his focus and his most recognizable works are his word paintings featuring oversized, three-dimensional text painstakingly integrated into vintage landscape lithographs. The paintings are thought-provoking and almost always humorous. White enjoys pointing a finger at vanity, ego, and his memories of the South.
Zeitgeist is excited to also include in this exhibition work by Kurt Wagner. Wagner, an artist from Nashville and childhood friend of White, may be best known for his work with the band Lambchop. Wagner holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in fine art from the Memphis Academy of Arts and Montana State University respectively. Reception for the artists from 6 pm to 8 pm September 1, 2011. Public invited. |  |