Color Feelings, a solo exhibition at Furman University in Greenville South Carolina, March - April 2023

Color Feelings, surveys Whitehurst’s last six months of studio work: fifteen new paintings made at Furman University and five large monotypes on paper begun at Penland School of Craft in North Carolina in the fall of 2022 and completed during her time here at Furman. 

These paintings and works on paper speak to the material nuances of Whitehurst’s practice; cast plaster tablets made of foam and wood with acrylic paint film transfers, met with direct applications of pastel and pencil on handmade paper. Saturated colors cover these surfaces and stand in as a physical layering on these sculptural objects. The titles of the pieces, poetic and synesthetic in nature, draw clear emotional ties to the personal narrative of these hybrid object-paintings. Memories of temperature, tension, place, and feeling weave through these pieces as if each was plucked from a larger story with no clear beginning or end. As if in a dream, some parts coalesce, while others suspend into abstraction.