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Cate White Jerome (phone man), 2024 Acrylic, spray paint, glitter, collage on canvas 36 x 32 inches
Exhibition
Cate White. Men
18 Apr 2025 – 23 May 2025
Regular hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Address
- 38 Walker Street
- New York
New York - 10013
- United States
George Adams Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings by Bay Area artist Cate White. The exhibition features ten portraits inspired by photographs of men from the 1970s and ’80s. This is White’s second solo show with the gallery.
About
Cate White was first introduced by the gallery in the 2021 Bay Area survey exhibition, Shapeshifters, featuring a series of gritty urban scenes depicting residents of Oakland. Tasmin Smith described White’s works from this Men series in a recent review published in Juxtapoz as “relentlessly imaginative portrayals of abjectness and pathos mixed with small, significant signs of life’s odd pleasures.”
White is a sympathetic portraitist while not shying away from honesty and even irony. Included in the current exhibition are Ricky (tub man) (2025), depicting her subject as a wannabe rockstar looking equally preposterous and cool while drinking a beer in a bathtub, and Miguel (robe man) (2024), shown lounging on a bed with his cat, robe askew. In a similar vein to the paintings in Shapeshifters, White’s perspective is not in the least condescending; rather she presents her subjects unapologetically, even appreciatively as they are.
