From the publisher
"Wanting" is dedicated to everyone who has felt left out, marginalized, somehow lacking. In glorious digital paintings and poetry, Corinne Whitaker touches our deepest feelings about being an outsider and offers hope for change. This is Whitaker's 23rd book of digital painting and poetry, and reflects her 40 years as a pioneering digital artist and author. More of her work can be found at www.giraffe.com, her award-winning eZine now in its 22nd year of monthly web publication.
About the author
Corinne Whitaker, aka the Digital Giraffe, has been acclaimed for 40 years as one of the pioneering artists in the fields of digital imaging and sculpture. She has exhibited worldwide in over 300 exhibitions, including solo exhibits at the Peninsula Art Museum in Burlingame, CA. and Stanford University. Her work has been published in over 100 magazines, books, catalogs, media and newspapers. She presented the first digital fine art exhibit in India and has shown work in Thailand, Germany, England, Japan, Russia, France, China, Singapore, and Italy. She has shown at the the Louvre in Paris, the Austin Museum of Digital Art and the Museum of Computer Art. She has lectured extensively on the radical new iconography offered by the computer, including "Look Ma. No Paintbrush!" at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. In 2007 Whitaker exhibited at Art Biennale in Florence, Italy. In 2010 she exhibited her work at United States Biennale in New York City. In 2014 she was included in "Best of 2014" at ARC Gallery in Chicago. In 2015 she was one of the distinguished sculptors invited to participate in 2 International Conferences on 3D printing at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. Whitaker is featured in "Women Artists of the American West." Her work has won over 30 awards, including two Golden Web Awards as well as an Artist's Fellowship Award from the City of Pasadena. She is featured in "Art of the Digital Age," as well as "International Digital Sculpture, 2009." She is also the author of 23 books of digital paintings and poetry. . Whitaker's award-winning Digital Giraffe online journal (www.giraffe.com) now in its 22nd year of web publication, has been visited by 183 nations. It presents a changing exhibit of digital sculpture and paintings along with critiques and articles, most of them archived online for the free use of scholars, curators, academics, critics and lovers of art. Whitaker has been actively involved in the art community. For ten years she ran the Digital Giraffe gallery in Carmel, California. She has been a Board Member of the Fellows of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and the Carmel Gallery Alliance. She is represented by the Paul Mahder Gallery in Healdsburg, CA.
