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18-411: Wayne White could refer to: Wayne White (artist) (born 1957), American artist, art director, puppeteer, set designer, animator, cartoonist and illustrator Wayne White (cricketer) (born 1985), English former cricketer See also [ edit ] Randy Wayne White (born 1950), American crime fiction writer [REDACTED] Topics referred to by

36-421: A cartoonist and illustrator for a number of publications including The East Village Eye , Raw , The New York Times , and The Village Voice . In 1986 he worked on Pee-wee's Playhouse where his work for his set and puppet designs won three Emmy awards ; he also supplied a number of voices on the show. Other television credits include production and set design for Shining Time Station , Riders in

54-488: A conversation published by Bitter Southerner magazine. Chattanooga Brewing Company introduced their "Wayne White Ale" beer in 2018. White is married to cartoonist and writer Mimi Pond . They have two children, Woodrow "Woody" White and Lulu White, who are also artists themselves. Nixon (album) Nixon became a breakthrough release for Lambchop in the United Kingdom, where it received critical acclaim and

72-623: A documentary about Wayne White's life, premiered at SXSW in Austin, Texas . In June 2013 the interactive, site-specific installation HALO AMOK debuted at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art . White describes HALO AMOK as a "cubist cowboy rodeo." In November 2016 White created an art installation in Chattanooga called Wayne-O-Rama that includes huge cardboard heads of figures from Chattanooga's history, including Dragging Canoe and Adolph Ochs , and

90-454: A glossy, 3-D style. His works have been compared to Ed Ruscha . Arguably, White's most famous work is his painting Nixon , which was featured on the cover of an album, also titled Nixon , by the band Lambchop . A school friend of Lambchop's Kurt Wagner , White has contributed to four of the band's album covers. On September 16, 2009 at The Modern Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, White gave

108-771: A large model of Lookout Mountain featuring details about the mountain including the roadside attractions Rock City , Ruby Falls and the Incline . It was partially funded by the Shaking Ray Levis Society, Benwood Foundation , the Lyndhurst Foundation and See Rock City Inc. In January 2020, White announced his fourth solo art show at the Joshua Liner Gallery in New York City, and in April 2020, White released

126-524: A presentation of his work through the retelling of his life. In September 2009 White installed a large puppet head of George Jones in the Rice Gallery at Rice University in Houston, Texas. The puppet's eyes rotate in its head, and if the viewer pulls a rope, the mouth opens and a snoring noise emerges. A huge fan rotates at the base of the head, with the words "dreaming" written over the fan blades. The piece

144-511: A score of 84 out of 100 on the review aggregation website Metacritic , indicating "universal acclaim". The album was particularly well received by the British music press. NME critic Gavin Martin deemed it Lambchop's best record and said that its "sheer sonorous delight" justified comparisons to The Beach Boys ' 1966 album Pet Sounds , while Allan Jones of Uncut praised Nixon as "one of

162-484: A series of eighteen never before seen drawings that he had completed between the years of 2012 and 2020. This release was done in conjunction with the debut of a series of short puppet shows that White created for Instagram with each episode containing a short joke or gag produced by White. White made the cover art, Curdled American Dream , for the X album Alphabetland due to vocalist Exene Cervenka and bassist John Doe both being fans of his work. White created

180-508: Is called "Big Lectric Fan to Keep Me Cool While I Sleep," in reference to George Jones's recording of "Ragged but Right." In January 2009, White was featured at Marty Walker Gallery in Dallas , Texas in a group art exhibition titled There's something I've been meaning to tell you... . The Marty Walker Gallery also held a solo art exhibition for White in 2010 titled I fell 37 miles to the earth 100 years ago . In March 2012, Beauty Is Embarrassing ,

198-729: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Wayne White (artist) Wayne Wilkes White (born September 17, 1957) is an American painter , art director , puppeteer , set designer , animator, cartoonist and illustrator. He has won three Emmy Awards for his work. In the documentary Beauty is Embarrassing , White says he was born in Sand Mountain , Alabama . After graduating from Hixson High School in Chattanooga , Tennessee (1975) and Middle Tennessee State University ( BFA , 1979), White went to New York City (1980) and worked as

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216-483: The UK Singles Chart . According to The Guardian ' s John Aizlewood, Nixon established Lambchop as "standard bearers" for alternative country music, and "proved that the genre could be commercially viable if it painted its off-kilter pictures of redemption and loss in glorious Technicolor rather than mealy-mouthed monochrome." Nixon was released to highly positive reviews from music critics, receiving

234-718: The Sky , The Weird Al Show and Beakman's World . He art directed two seminal music videos, Peter Gabriel 's " Big Time " in 1986, for which he won a Billboard award for best Art Direction in a music video, and in 1996 he designed all the Georges Méliès -inspired sets for the award-winning video for the Smashing Pumpkins " Tonight, Tonight ". More recently he has concentrated on his painting career. He takes cheap, mass-produced lithographs which he finds in secondhand thrift stores and painstakingly paints phrases or words on them in

252-490: The cover art and 30 original chapter illustrations for the book Cocaine & Rhinestones: A History of George Jones & Tammy Wynette by Tyler Mahan Coe, published by Simon & Schuster in September 2024. (The book is an adaptation of the second season of the podcast of the same name .) The collaboration on a book is fitting, as several years earlier White and Coe discussed their mutual love of books and country music during

270-419: The first great records of the new millennium". At the end of 2000, Nixon was named one of the year's best albums by numerous British publications, including Uncut (who ranked it as the best album of 2000), Mojo , NME , and Q . Nixon was later included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die . All tracks are written by Kurt Wagner , except where noted Credits are adapted from

288-519: The material on the Nixon album to be tragicomic , and an image of Nixon came to mind," Wagner explained. Nixon was released on February 7, 2000, by Lambchop's European label City Slang , and on February 8, 2000, by the band's American label Merge Records . It peaked at number 60 on the UK Albums Chart . "Up with People" was released as a single from the album on May 2, 2000, reaching number 66 on

306-405: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wayne_White&oldid=1066077656 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

324-438: Was named among the best albums of 2000 by numerous publications. Nixon has been described as a merging of chamber pop , countrypolitan , and R&B sounds alongside "sweet" soul music. The title Nixon alludes to Richard Nixon and was derived from the album's cover artwork, which is a painting by Wayne White , a friend of Lambchop frontman Kurt Wagner . "He always plays around with slogans or words. He considered

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