"All the things in our world exist surrounded by all the other things. They gain and lose and change their meaning accordingly. Perhaps the most salient example of this is language, as individual words work together in phrases and sentences in order to communicate. A word on its own means very little, but a word surrounded by other words can mean almost anything. Amy White seems to be getting at this structuralist understanding in her “Text/Objects/Painting” installations. . ." [click above link for full review]

"Amy White, an Indy contributor, offers the show's most ambitious piece: an assemblage of shelved objects and paintings that only features fragments of text mounted alongside jars of local dirt and rainwater, White's bottled hair, notebooks, blank Polaroids and other precisely numbered and arranged items. A row of photographs of Joseph Cornell is apt. It's as if one of his boxes of mysterious talismans took over a wall. In careful, line-by-line groupings—five of these, then two of these, then five more of these—the objects come to seem like letters, relaying a message we could understand if only we spoke bottle-and-dirt instead of English. The show flips on its head, with images acting like text." [click above link for full review]

"...Amy White’s Text/Objects/Painting No. 2: The Theory of Everything . . . as its title might suggest is as much multimedia installation as it is a text-oriented work." [click above link for full review]