Discipline: Visual Art – installation

Lulu White

Discipline: Visual Art – installation
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2024

Lulu White is an artist working in the mediums of sculpture, painting, and performance. Born in Los Angeles, White was raised by visual artists engrained in the Hollywood entertainment industry. She earned her B.F.A. from Cooper Union in 2017, and has since established a studio practice in New York City, supplemented with a career in production and prop fabrication.

She has been included in group and solo exhibitions nationwide, notably at Microscope Gallery, PAGEANT, Marvin Gardens, Eyes Never Sleep, and Punto Lairs. She has also staged temporary outdoor exhibitions in Brooklyn and Queens, emphasizing her interest in the role of unsanctioned public art. White opened her first solo show in April of 2024 at Quarters Gallery in Los Angeles.

At MacDowell, White experimented with new processes of material fabrication and text-based research. Inspired by the landscape outside her studio, she began developing several sculptural pieces intended for installation in North Eastern woodland settings like the one at MacDowell. One of these was a miniature Hollywood Starline Tours Van built out of the rocks she collected and sorted from the surrounding gravel roads.

Studios

Cheney

Lulu White worked in the Cheney studio.

Cheney Studio was given to MacDowell by Mrs. Benjamin P. Cheney and Mrs. Karl Kauffman. Like Barnard Studio, Cheney is a low, broadly massed bungalow. Sited on a steep westward slope, its porches are supported on wooden posts and fieldstone with lattices. Although it still retains its appealing character, the original design of the shingled building…

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