ARTIST STATEMENT
INSIDE OUT / OUTSIDE IN
I’m a multi-disciplinary artist exploring the space between a tangible organic place and a zone of unseen energy. My work is a visualization of transformation, metamorphosis, emergence and growth. Vessels and primordial cocoons feed off of internal data directives driven by a distinctly female force. Through the use of visual storytelling and sound my studio work and media projects explore the relationship between biological form, genetic code and the human spirit.
I’m a multi-disciplinary artist exploring the space between a tangible organic place and a zone of unseen energy. My work is a visualization of transformation, metamorphosis, emergence and growth. Vessels and primordial cocoons feed off of internal data directives driven by a distinctly female force. Through the use of visual storytelling and sound my studio work and media projects explore the relationship between biological form, genetic code and the human spirit.
EXHIBITIONS
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2006 PS122 Project Space, NYC Spirit of the Hive Installation
1984 Executive Gallery, New York City
1981 79 Wall StreetGallery, Huntington, New York
EXPERIENTIAL VIDEO INSTALLATIONS
2013 NYC Opera Rossini's Moses in Egypt - Michael Counts CD
2011 NYC Opera John Zorn's La Machine de L'Etre - Micheal Counts CD
2004 PS122 Project Space, NYC Spirit of the Hive
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Upstate Art Weekend, Millbrook Arts Group Open Studio Millbrook, NY
1985 Civilian Warfare, "Summer Show" NYC
1985 Kamakazie "Too Hot For Summer", curator Robert Costa NYC
1985 Art Mart, "Spring Show" curator Anne Philbin NYC
1985 Blonix City Artists" curator Eve Zimmerman NYC
1985 Dramatis Personae, "Illuminations" NYC
1985 P.S. 122, "May Day Benefit" NYC
1985 PPOW, "Joan of Arc," curator Steve Whitecell NYC
1985 Women's lnterart Center, 1135 under 35," NYC
1985 Kamakazie, "Recommendations" 1985" NYC
1984 Gabrielle Bryers, "New Work" NYC
1984 Court Gallery, "Image Pilgrimage" NYC
1984 Gabrielle Bryers, "Four Painters" NYC
1983 Hallwalls, "Painters" curator Claudia Gould, Buffalo, NY
1983 PS 122, "Post Modern Man" curator Robert Costa, NYC
1983 Monique Knowlton Gallery,”Intoxication” curator Nicolas Moufarrege, NYC
1983 Middle Collegiate Church, "Resurrection" NYC
1983 Civilian Warfare, ''All Art" NYC
1983 PS I,"A Flag for the Eighties" curator Nicolas Moufarrege, LIC
1982 Nature Morte, "December Show" NYC
1982 Evelyn's Kitchen, "Mook Art'' NYC
1981 10 DOWNTOWN 14th Annual Studio Installation. NYC
1981 New York University,"Small Works" curator Patterson Sims, NYC
1981 14th Annual Ten Downtown, NYC
1981 AIR, Holiday Invitational, NYC
1981 Central Falls Gallery, Group Exhibiton, NYC
1981 Indian Community House Gallery Benefit, NYC
1981 79 Wall Street Gallery, "Small Works" Huntington, NY
1981 WPA Gallery, "Beloit/New York" NYC
1980 Alternative Museum "Totems, Fetishes + Devotional Objects"curator Gino Rodriguez, NYC
1980 New York University, "Small Works" curator Maria Tucker, NYC
1977 13th Annual Avant Garde Festival, World Trade Center, NYC
1977 Colorado University, "Xerox/Xerox/Xerox" Boulder, Colorado
PUBLICATIONS
Fast Company: Mark Wilson "The Future of Opera Is An FX Extravaganza" 4/19/13
The New York Times: Anthony Tommasini "NYC Opera goes Home to City Center" 4/26/13
East Village Eye: Timothy Cohrs "Ada Whitney at Executive Gallery” 6/84
Flash Art: Nicolas A. Mouffarrege "East Village” 3/83
Arts: Nicolas A. Mouffarrege “Intoxication" 4/83
NY Native: Dean Savard "There's Something Going On Here” 2/29/83
Hallwalls Catalog: Claudia Gould “Painters” 9/83
Buffalo News: Anthony Bannon "Visiting Curator Ends Term with Variety” 9/29/83
Arts: Nicolas Mouffarrege ''Another Wave Still More Savagely Than The First:Lower East Side” 9/82
Soho Weekly News: John Perrault "Magical Mystery Tour" 6/11/80
Soho Weekly News: Michael Burlingham "An Endangered Species” 12/24/81
Villager: Ed Rubin "Touring the Life of the Artist” 5/81
Alternative Museum: "Totems, Fetishes and Devotional Objects," Michelle Cone curator, 1980
CONTACT
awhitney@beehive.tv beehive.tv