New Work by Jeffrey Whittle
May 1 – June 25, 2025
Reception: Thursday, May 1, 2025, 6:00-8:00
ATHICA @ Ciné Gallery
234 W Hancock Ave.
Athens, GA 30601
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ATHICA@Ciné Gallery presents an exhibition featuring new drawings by Jeffrey Whittle. These figurative works hover in a dreamlike realm where nature engulfs and reflects the fragmented relationship between the factual and the fantastic. Blooming, shimmering, and watery, these works swim with color and surface.
BLUNDERS & WONDERS
These works constitute an exploration into aqueous media, collage, metal leaf and various papers such as hot press, duralar, etc. A few years ago I experienced an artist block that interrupted my practice of oil painting. That was a terrible feeling. In retaliation I turned to carpentry — ultimately building an artist studio. I also turned to materials that I am not naturally adept at.
Several of these ideas and drawings began on an uninhabited Island in northern Maine. I spent time there, 2019-2024, as an artist-in-residence, and the environment is conducive to daydreaming and experimentation. Nautical maps of coastal Maine gave further flight to my imagination.
I’d like to think that the creative block presented a portal — into the nature of not knowing.
— Jeffrey Whittle, 2025
This is Whittle’s first solo exhibition with ATHICA. He was selected by the ATHICA Exhibitions Committee to be featured in the Solo Duo Trio series, which provides opportunities for individual artists to exhibit their work at ATHICA and its partner location, ATHICA@Ciné.
About the Artist
Jeffrey Whittle is an painter, carpenter and educator living in Athens, Georgia. He received his MFA in Painting from Cornell University and his work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Whittle teaches painting and figure drawing at UGA.
Press Release: https://mailchi.mp/athica/whittle
New Work by Jeffrey Whittle is sponsored in part by The James E. and Betty J. Huffer Foundation, The Georgia Council for the Arts, and The National Endowment for the Arts.