Charlie White
A Selection from The Teen and Transgender Comparative Study
October 27, 2009–January 27, 2010
(On view 24 hours a day)

Reception: Tues., Oct. 27, 2009, 5–8 pm

Washington Square Windows
80 Washington Square East
NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
New York, NY

Charlie White's Teen and Transgender Comparative Study, 2008, parallels two puberties: one biological, the other chemical/surgical. Over the course of a year, White worked to identify teen and male-to-female transsexual subjects who, when viewed together, would create a visual bridge between female adolescence and male-to-female sexual transformation. The Study is part of a larger project titled The Girl Studies, which includes a 35mm film titled American Minor and a series of short animations titled OMG BFF LOL.

This exhibition marks 80WSE's transition into exhibiting high-profile artists while inviting contemporary issues of conceptualism, representation and identity into the gallery's aesthetic orientation. A Selection From The Teen and Transgender Comparative Study was produced specifically for 80WSE by reprinting three of White's original photographs at a unique scale for public presentation in the exhibition windows.