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[Petzel Gallery] Austin Martin White, the first standalone volume of the artist’s work, provides an in-depth investigation of White’s sophisticated and idiosyncratic oeuvre. At the center of Austin Martin White's impressive body of work is the act of manipulating and reinterpreting history. Working with a variety of materials including rubber, acrylic, spray-paint, vinyl, 3m reflective fabric and screen mesh mediums, White creates paintings and works on paper that investigate representations of historical memory, drawing on archival research that addresses issues of identity, race, and postcolonialism. By pulling apart and reassembling received historical imagery, the artist destabilizes colonial and classist codes that run throughout Western art history. This first monograph on his paintings and works on paper shows the wide variety of subjects on which White brings this incisive method to bear; each chapter acquaints us with a different series in the artist's work through a bri