Rachel whiteread

The first woman to win the Turner prize feels lucky to have been able to live off her art

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVueGlKQTE8 26 min Biography How Rachel Whiteread became famous Is it possible to illustrate memory or lack of it? This is exactly what the sculptures…

Rachel Whiteread, Untitled (Stacks), 1999

The British sculptor draws on her formative experiences to create often-monumental works.

Rachel Whiteread is the most successful and original artist to have filled the big space at Tate Modern, the Turbine Hall. Her white landscape of cubic boxes offers the museum-goer something of a dreamland. Space and scale are subject to an ingenious interplay by Whiteread. At first, one might, on entering the scenario at ground level, feel as if one were subsumed in a warehouse where the warehousemen have been stacking things to rule, before, or immediately after, some industrial dispute.

Washington, DC—For the past 30 years, acclaimed British artist Rachel Whiteread (b. 1963) has created a body of work that is wide-ranging in scale and medium, yet consistent in its process of casting the objects and spaces of everyday life. Whiteread deploys replication, reorientation, and repetition to trace a social past while bringing it into the present. On view at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, from September 16, 2018, through January 13, 2019, "Rachel Whiteread" is the first…

Rachel Whiteread at Tate Britain: Torsos

Wednesday, September 22, 2021, 1pm Messe Basel artbasel.com As part of Art Basel’s Conversation series, Rachel Whiteread will participate in a Premiere Artists Talk with Ann Gallagher, former director of Tate’s collection of British art and editor of the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist’s sculpture, about key moments in her career and what drives her work today. The conversation will be introduced by Marc Spiegler, global director of Art Basel. The event is free to attend with…