101 Things To Learn In Art School
MIT Press, Fall 2011
What is the first thing to learn in art school? "Art can be anything." The second thing? "Learn to draw." With 101 Things to Learn in Art School, artist and teacher Kit White delivers and develops such lessons, striking an instructive balance between technical advice and sage concepts. These 101 maxims, meditations, and demonstrations offer both a toolkit of ideas for the art student and a set of guiding principles for the artist. Complementing each of the 101 succinct texts is an equally expressive drawing by the artist, often based on a historical or contemporary work of art, offering a visual correlative to the written thought.
Kit White, Line Into Form by Carter Ratcliff, Monograph, Foliart Publishers
Many of Kit's works are reproduced in the 200-page, fully illustrated monograph by Carter Ratcliff, Kit White: Line Into Form, published in 2016 by Foliart Publishers. In his thorough essay that follows the shifts in White's career, Ratcliff aptly asserts: "White lays out paths for the eye." A constant through White's practice-while his paintings' use of color, space, and figure/ground relationships undergo various changes-is his use of gestural line and mark to bring the viewer into the present of the painting.
Selected Articles by Kit
"Gwenn Thomas," Review Magazine, November 1996
"Mathew Barney and the Empty Artifact," Review Magazine, December 1,1997
"Bernard Chaet," Review Magazine, March 15, 1998
"Hector Leonardi,” Catalogue Essay, April 1998
"Pier Consagra," Review Magazine, April 15, 1998
"Antonio Marra," Catalogue Essay, July 1998
"Willard Boepple," Review Magazine, March 15, 1999
"Steve Mumford," Review Magazine, March15, 1999
"Art As Identity," Review Magazine, April 1, 1999
"Kim Keever," Review Magazine, April 15, 1999
"Patrick Wilson," Review Magazine, April 15, 1999
"Linda Schrank," Catalogue Essay, July 1999, Museo della Ceramica, Monte San Savino, Italy
"Women and Geometric Abstraction," Exhibition Essay, Pratt Institute, September 1999
"William Tucker," Review Magazine, December 1, 1999
"Lex Braes," Review Magazine, December 15, 1999
"Steve DiBenedetto," Review Magazine, May 1, 2000
"Jules Olitski," ARTnews, Jan. 2001
"James Castle," ARTnews, Feb., 2001
"Andrea Belag,” ARTnews, Feb. 2001
"Martin Mull," ARTnews, May 2001
"Julie Heffernan," ARTnews, October 2001
"David Bates", ARTnews, March 2002
Catalogue Essay, International Print Center, Summer 2014
Catalogue Essays
"Christopher White", Huntington Art Museum, 1983, NEA Funded
"Stifel Ten Tear Retrospective", Ogleby Institute, Stifel Fine Arts Center, 1988
"Kit White. Paintings 1988-93", in association with Salander/O'Reilly Galleries, NYC, 1993
"Kit White, Recent Paintings", Salander/O'Reilly Galleries, NYC 1996
“Contemporary American Art”, Drennan/Johnson, Vienna, Austria, may 2002
“Kit White, Recent Paintings”, Andre Zarre Gallery, New York, 2007
“Drawings From Civitella”, 2011, Kit White, Andre Zarre Gallery
“Coming Home”, Clay Center Museum