A Fluent Confluence of Influence

Tom & Lois White

What do door knobs, broken sea shells, used paper towels, tranquil seascapes, and ATM machines have in common? As much as light and paint. The Whites give photography a new way of seeing.

Collaborative husband and wife team Tom & Lois White are cofounders and resident artists at WHITEPOINT (previously Exhibit No.9), gallery and studio for contemporary art. Both are multidisciplinary artists working in photography-based new media. Much of their work explores the vagaries of light through the use of multiple exposure, color, black and white, and positive / negative relationships. The results challenge the viewer’s perception of the image’s subject matter and medium.

Their clients are collectors, art advisors & consultants, developers, interior designers, and architects serving the private, residential, corporate, and hospitality markets. In addition to commercial and residential commission, their work is in numerous private collections.

Tom White

For Tom, contemporary photography is a space that is wide open – a launching point to develop ideas that become transformed into something more nuanced than the typical use of the medium. His process is a hybrid of the disciplines of painting, design, photography, science, technology, and printmaking in both analog and digital media. Not happy with conventions, he is constantly re(de)fining the use of photography.

The foundation of his work is the curiosity, exploration and discovery of the world around us, man made or natural. Many things that we encounter regularly which seem to be obvious turn out to be far more glorious than we had time to imagine. Not willing to be identified by style or genre, Tom’s work ranges from hyperrealistic to abstract to present the vision of the project at hand.

Lois White

As a photographic artist, Lois draws upon her textile and knitwear design background to weave ideas, concepts and experiences with her camera. 

For her, the use of the lens is less about capturing a moment and more about an intent or visceral experience that is palpable to the viewer. For Lois, the camera is the conduit between the real and the emotional. 

Her abstract work involves single frame in-camera long exposures that express the gestures and motion of light. The results are otherworldly impressions like ethereal paintings and drawings.