Since 2021, Kit White has been engaged in a series of paintings prompted by the California wildfires. Though at first perception these images may appear wholly abstract, closer inspection reveals a photographic image embedded in the background of each painting, creating a layered space that reveals itself slowly. The paintings are a dialogue between the digital image and a response to that image rendered in calligraphic overlays that act like seismic analogs for the consuming fire.

Kit White is a New York based artist and writer. He studied Fine Arts at Harvard University. His work has been the subject of more than twenty solo exhibitions in New York. His paintings are in the collections of many museums. Tennis players in Cornwall may recall his small tennis trophies for the Cream Hill Lake Club from the early 1990’s.