Whitney Bedford

Tender is the Day

2015

Whitney Bedford lives and works in Los Angeles.

Whitney Bedford utilizes metallic gold layered ink drawing to interact with oil paint, thus creating unpredictable compositions. As changing light captures the metallic, the paintings come to life and bring wonderment to the intricate details. The desert landscape compositions reflect back an intimate beauty of shape, line and pattern against the contrasting solid weight of the painted ground.

Bedford received her MFA at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2003. She was the winner of the 2001 UCLA Hammer Museum Drawing Biennale and received a Fulbright Graduate Fellowship from Hochschule der Kuenste, Berlin. She has had solo exhibitions at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles; Cherrydelosreyes Gallery, Los Angeles; D’Amelio Terras Gallery, New York; Art Concept, Paris, and Starkwhite, Auckland, New Zealand. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

Bedford’s works are in several prominent collections, including: Jumex Collection, Mexico City, Mexico; De La Cruz Collection, Miami, Florida, USA; The Saatchi Collection, London, England; Francois Pinault Collection, Paris, France; Eric Decelle Collection, Brussels, Belgium; Collection Ginette Moulin/Guillaume Houze, Paris, France.