What formulas of life motivate an artist? It is different for each artist, an artists individuality, the sum total of the experiences that influence his/her work. Whitney Wolf, the featured artist at the Scott Laurent Galleries for August is an artist with many layers. He is a Taoist well-versed in Quantum Physics, and with a Bachelors degree in Philosophy, is intrigued by the human element as it pertains to the entire universe.
His paintings, inspired by science and mathematical questions, entice the viewer with their color and texture. To Whitney, Science is something important to investigate on a visual level. His bronze faces, both tactile and spiritual, are reminiscent of shamanistic masks of ancient cultures.
Whitney Wolf is a native of Winter park who studies Philosophy and then achieved a Masters Degree in Visual Art Education at UCF (a program, by the way, which is no longer offered). He teaches sculpture at the Maitland Art Center where his students can experience his methodology first-hand.
eLEVEN MAGAZINE
August 1996
“Artist of the Month”
By: Ramona Zavala
Photo by Andy Allen
Chaos Revisualized, the upcoming exhibition at his studio in Winter Park, explores the theory of chaos; the coming together of two diametrically opposed systems. Much of the work has a biomorphic quality and many of his bronze studies are bicameral, the result of Whitney's research of the brain and its components: how we think, our consciousness and our neurological systems.
Paul Klee the German Expressionist described his own work as an dacht zum kleinen, devotion to small things. Exactitude winged by intuition is how Klee's work fuses art with science. I observe parallels with this Bauhaus artist and Whitney Wolfs artistic journey. In the microcosm of his own visual world, Whitney Wolf also observes the macrocosm of the universe. Mind as Universe Mind as Universe Observing Itself.
Whitney Wolf Chaos Revisualized opening night, August 24th, 6 p.m.
Wolf Studio-Gallery
Visit Whitney's studio by appointment
