Gaa

About the Gallery
Gaa promotes a dynamic program of international contemporary artists and is committed to developing the careers of emerging artists as well as recontextualizing artists of earlier generations. The gallery provides platforms for exposure and exchange through showcasing a wide array of artists whose works are conceptually motivated and investigate the narrative and philosophical capacities of painting, sculpture, installation, and photography. Since its inception, Gaa has expanded to two permanent gallery spaces in Cologne, Germany and the Tribeca neighbourhood of New York. Gallery artists have been exhibited and acquired by major institutions such as LACMA, MoMA, the Whitney Museum of American Art, MoCA Los Angeles, MoMA PS1, The Hammer Museum, and Dallas Museum of Art, among others.

About the Presentation
Gaa will debut at Independent with a solo presentation featuring work by Wendy White. White’s multidisciplinary practice involves the use of nontraditional materials to create objects which challenge conventional notions of painting and sculpture. In a continuous navigation of space, White constructs paintings that seem to extend outside of the two-dimensional picture plane, and sculptures which might seamlessly blend into supporting structures, if not for their sheer physicality. The precise gradation and accumulation of MTN 94 enamel based spray paint on clear stretched vinyl creates a dimensional, colorful haze through which White’s characteristic iconography of rainbows, clouds, palm trees, and pixel hearts emerge. Developed across the span of her career, these distinctive symbols utilize the vernacular of contemporary branding, American pop culture, and twentieth-century art history to explore themes involving the passage of time and the inconstancy of emotion inherent in the human experience.