Watie White: The Chicago Project

The Chicago Project by Omaha, Nebraska-based artist, Watie White, transforms traditional linoleum prints into near billboard-sized vinyl images. As a result, each bold line and cross-hatch the artist used to construct the image is vividly communicated, revealing White’s signature style, which blends gestures of painting, printmaking, and drawing with text to create new visual content. The artworks in the series tell individuals’ stories through a unique combination of expressive portraiture overlaid with textual interventions, which are excerpted from conversations the artist has with his spontaneous subjects.