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Veduta (Three Trees, L\u2019Estaque), 2024, ink and oil on linen on panel, 100,3 \u00d7 78,7 \u00d7 5 cm (39 \u00bd \u00d7 31 \u00d7 2 inches). Photo Evan Bedford<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Veduta (Monet Giverny), 2023, ink and oil on linen on panel, 91 \u00d7 81 \u00d7 5 cm (35 \u215e \u00d7 31 \u215e \u00d7 2 inches). Photo Evan Bedford<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Veduta (Gleizes), 2023, ink and oil on linen on panel, 147,3 \u00d7 114,3 \u00d7 5 cm (58 \u00d7 45 \u00d7 2 inches). Photo Evan Bedford<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Veduta (Salvo Sera), 2022, Ink and oil on linen on panel, 39,4 \u00d7 31 \u00bd inches (100,08 \u00d7 80,01 cm). Photo Evan Bedford<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Veduta (L\u00e9ger), Ink and oil on linen on panel, 2022, 24 \u00d7 30 \u00d7 2 inches (60,96 \u00d7 76,20 \u00d7 5,08 cm). Photo Evan Bedford<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Whitney Bedford, Veduta (Van Gogh Flowers), 2022, ink and oil on wood on hybrid panel. 32 \u00bd \u00d7 40,1 \u00d7 2 inches (82,55 \u00d7 101,85 \u00d7 5,08 cm). Photo Evan Bedford<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Veduta (Seewald), 2023, ink and oil on linen on panel, 60,9 \u00d7 76,2 \u00d7 5 cm (24 \u00d7 30 \u00d7 2 inches). Photo Evan Bedford<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Vue d’exposition \/ Installation view Whitney Bedford, Vedute, Art : Concept, Paris, 2022. Photo Nicolas Brasseur<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Veduta (Gainsborough), 2020. Ink and oil on panel, 18 x 24 x 2 in. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Good do Bad, 2017. Ink and oil on panel, 28 x 37 x 1 1\/2 in.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Installation View, West of Eden, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, 2015. Photo: Robert Wedemeyer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Night Ahead, 2017. Ink and oil on panel, 36 x 48 x 1 1\/2 in.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Light Night, 2016. Ink and oil on panel, 36 x 62 in. Private collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Installation View, West of Eden, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, 2015. Photo: Robert Wedemeyer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Soft Day, 2016. Ink and oil on panel, 36 x 62 in. Private collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Cactus Trash and Treasure, 2016, ink and oil on linen on panel, 91,44 \u00d7 121,92 \u00d7 5 cm (36 \u00d7 48 \u00d7 2 inches)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Jane Fonda, 2020. Graphite on Arches hot press paper, 30 x 22 in.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Simone de Beauvoir, 2020
Graphite on Arches hot press paper,
76,2 \u00d7 55,88 cm (30 \u00d7 22 inches)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Book (Avery), 2012. Ink and oil on panel, 18 x 22 in.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Book (Guston), 2012
Ink and oil on linen on panel,
45,72 \u00d7 55,88 cm (18 \u00d7 22 inches)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Diabolique, 2017. Ink and oil on panel, 30 x 42 x 1,75 in. Private collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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(Untitled) Anthem, 2008.
Ink and oil on linen on panel,
78,5 \u00d7 124,5 cm (30 \u215e \u00d7 49 inches)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Untitled (Minha Luta Tropical), 2006. Ink and oil on panel, 22 x 26 in.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Biography<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1976, Whitney Bedford lives and works in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The artist\u2019s latest series brings together what she calls Vedute, a series of landscape paintings inspired by late nineteenth and early twentieth century masters \u2013 from Degas to S\u00e9rusier, Klimt or Van Gogh. As with her paintings of shipwrecks, icebergs, and rainforests, the California-based artist reappropriates this historical legacy and uses it as references for her autobiographical landscapes, which work as contemporary allegories of social and environmental experiences.” *<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her last works are also the result of a new working process. In the earlier paintings, drawing was used to create an architecture of gesture. From now on, although the drawing is still at the origin of her paintings from a technical point of view, she invents a meticulous process of masking and unmasking that puts the drawn flowers in the foreground. The pastoral scenes, pushed behind or outside the drawing space, seem more distant. The distance thus created between the painting and the drawing underlines the artist’s search for archives and the rigorous selection of images that seem to belong to a lost or even disappearing world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On top of her painting practice, she pursues since 2020 an encyclopedic work that consists in drawing a female figure every day, chosen for her determination to make the world a better place. This tirelessly repeated gesture is a sign of solidarity and relentless support for the women who raise their voices. She considers these portraits, systematically posted on Instagram, as votive images, part of the proceeds of which will be donated to the Emily’s List action committee, which helps to elect progressive, anti-racist Democratic candidates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* Extract of the press release of her latest show at Art : Concept, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her work is present in several international collections such as: Eric Decelle, Brussels, Belgium; Francois Pinault Collection, Paris, FR; Ginette Moulin and Guillaume Houz\u00e9 Contemporary Art Collection, Paris, FR; Hammer Museum, Hammer Contemporary Collection, Los Angeles, US; Jumex Collection, Mexico City, MX; Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA; Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz, Miami, US; and The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK. Awards: UCLA Hammer Museum Drawing Biennal, Los Angeles (2001); Peggy Guggenheim Studentship, Venice (1997).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selected solo exhibitions include: Miles McEnery Gallery, New York (2021); Vielmetter, Los Angeles (2020, 2021 and 2023); Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago (2018); Saatchi Gallery, London (2018); Starkwhite, Auckland (2016); Taymour Grahne, New York (2015); Vielmetter, Los Angeles (2011), Houdini: Art and Magic, Jewish Museum, New York (2010).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the gallery<\/h4>\n\n\n\n