ARTIST BIO

Whitney Nye is a contemporary abstract artist based in Oregon. Her work includes large-scale abstract paintings, mixed media sculptures, and collages. Whitney’s ever-changing process is experimental. She consistently examines patterns of repetition, rhythms, and pauses in our natural and built environments. Spontaneity and curiosity are central to her practice. Nye will often abandon an entire body of work if it does not feel authentic, trusting in the excitement of the unfamiliar to generate energy and interest. She creates no predetermined palette or direction, letting instinct guide her use of both colors, mark-making, and materials

Nye is a graduate of the University of Oregon. Her work is in numerous prestigious private, public, and corporate collections. Art in Embassies program in Brunei, Southeast Asia;  A New State of Matter: Contemporary Glass at the Boise Art Museum and Grand Rapids Art Museum. Vermont Studio Center Fellowship; Golden Spot Award Ford Family Foundation; Career Opportunity Grant Oregon Arts Commission. Nye’s work is in the permanent collection of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, Oregon; Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon; Ford Alumni Center at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon; and the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN.