Rachael Whitney is a painter based in Brooklyn, New York.  Whitney engages the process of looking by dismantling the perception of color and form into a series of abstract, bitmap patterns.  Inspired by the process of vision perception details, such as the mark, dot and tick serve as core to the artist’s work that are set against neutral tones such as gray and beige.

Sample 1 consists of red and silver dots that appear alongside marks of the same color.  Spread across an 8.5” x 11” sheet of gray paper, these small cubic patterns allude to digital pixellation. Whitney lends significance to the minimal gesture, channeling and filtering images through the drawing process.  Sample 14 features a vertical display of brown dots that appear to move due to the careful placement of contrasts.  The overall installation of her work appears modular as each piece is attached to the wall with pushpins.

Rachael Whitney earned a BFA from Pratt Institute in 2010.  Her work has since appeared in an array of exhibitions.  Whitney’s show at 37-16 77^th Street Gallery, for instance, took place from September 23^rd to September 30^th, 2011 and was a collaborative group show.  In October 2011 the artist exhibited her paintings at the Two Moon Café in a show titled You Can Have Your Void and Eat It Too. The artist’s work was chosen for the Brenda Taylor Gallery, as part of a group exhibition in January 2012.