Shaqúelle Whyte

In his paintings, Whyte presents imagined spaces imbued with a sense of ambiguity that interrogate the human condition, all the while exploring the material qualities of the medium. Loosely rendered, energetic brushwork and an expansive approach to composition are hallmarks of the artist’s practice. This feeling of enigma is palpable in Kevin, you’re next, a diptych presenting two visual perspectives on a street fight. Interpreting themes of psychological turbulence through the image of a brawling crowd, Whyte’s generative interpretation of viciousness explores the relationship between play and conflict. Within his symbolic articulation of interiority, a sense of theatre pervades Whyte’s work; he directs his subjects as though they are performers on a stage.