Pae White

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Barking Rocks, work in progress, 2008. Photograph © Thierry Bal

Title: Barking Rocks
Location: Pleydell Gardens

Having observed pensioners unable to walk far and stranded on benches, their dogs listless or straining at the lead, Pae White designed her Barking Rocks park especially for the needs of both: now the elderly can rest and chat or picnic while their dogs exercise and play. The site itself, sandwiched between the main shopping street and the Leas promenade, had long been neglected and is now transformed into what the artist calls “landscape theatre”. Sculptures of cats’ heads ominously stuck on nine-foot-high poles are a dramatic (if tongue in cheek) warning to those not invited here. Barking Rocks is a social sculpture on several counts: it reclaims derelict land, returns it to the community and privileges, in a playful way, the disadvantaged, both human and canine.

About Pae

Photo: Joe Goode

Born USA, 1963. Lives and works in Los Angeles.

Recent solo exhibitions include

Mr. Baci e Abbracci, galleria francesca Kaufmann - Milan, Italy 2008
Lisa Bright and Dark, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art - Scottsdale, Arizona 2008
Too Much Night, neugerriemschneider – Berlin 2007
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden - Washington DC 2007
Get Well Soon, greengrassi – London 2006
In no particular order, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK and Milton Keynes Gallery, UK
Hammer Museum - Los Angeles, CA 2004

Acknowledgments
David Parfitt at Transformations, Chris McCreedy, Laura Pinkham and Yvette Soler at Shepway District Council.

See Pae White's work
www.greengrassi.com