Liquid Gold
This apparently abstract work in fact illustrates the play of sunlight on the ocean at sunset. Whitney has managed to so accurately capture the golden essence of the sun as it disappears that the painting seems to be illuminated from behind the canvas. In the close detail of its subject, Whitney’s painting points to the tension between abstraction and representation, questioning our notions of realism and illusion.
About the Artist
CE Whitney
b. 1946
Born in Toronto, Canada, CE Whitney moved to the Cayman Islands in the 1970s. She is a graduate of City Lit Art and Design, London, where she developed her Photorealist technique. Whitney is represented by Sandon Feat Gallery in Grand Cayman and her work has been shown at the Bridge Art Fair in Berlin (2008) and the Affordable Art Fair in New York (2009). As well as being included in Art of the Cayman Islands, the Islands’ first formal art history (Scala Fine Art Publishers Ltd.: Fall 2016), Whitney’s work was shown at NGCI in the exhibition All Access (2015).
