‘The Woman’ is searching for meaning in the TV Guide. For her, the television is the nirvana, and the TV Guide the map. By scrutinising its pictures, its schedules and its games, she becomes obsessed, creating rituals in its destruction while addicted to its potential for transcendence.
Or so it goes in the world of artist Eric White, who follows the journey of The Woman in his exhibition ‘Local Programming’ at New York’s Grimm gallery. In his paintings, a romanticised and glamorous American dream is given a dystopian twist, with the seemingly innocuous world of entertainment infecting its followers with xenophobia, isolation and misogyny.
