Whitney Erin Wernick  (born in May 1995) is an American visual artist who shares her connection with nature, her body, and today's harsh yet beautiful world in an authentic and creative technique. Wernick's focus includes self-portraits, the natural world, exploring the female experience, fashion design, and abstract nude photography while highlighting the world's controversial, social, and environmental issues.
 
In collaborating with herself, nature, and others, Wernick utilizes each experience to uncover the softness and rarity that can lie within connection, self-love, vitality, and the human psyche. Inspired by Baroque, Impressionist, Surrealist, and Contemporary artists and poets, Wernick evolves her identity daily through various mediums: oil and acrylic paints, inks, analog and digital photography, alternative processes (tintypes and cyanotypes), video, collage, handmade papers, installation (indoor and outdoor), mixed media, recycled materials, and natural paints using the earth, mineral pigments, and organic ingredients.
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Exploring her creative side since she was a child, Wernick has years of experience working with artists, musicians, jewelers, photographers, sculptors, galleries, private investors, non-profit arts organizations, and more as a photographer, editor, consultant, creative director, juror, marketing manager, and assistant. Her work can be found in private collections, homes, and offices scattered around the United States - add something to your walls.

 

Receiving a BFA in Photographic and Studio Art practices from the Santa Fe University of Art and Design in 2018, Wernick lived in and around Santa Fe, NM, for eight years before moving to DFW, TX. While living in New Mexico, she worked with several acclaimed creatives, including fashion, commercial, and fine art photographer Peter Ogilvie, sculptor Tom Joyce, Belle Fine Jewelry, and photographers Don Usner and Gabriella Marks, amongst others. Wernick has contributed to CENTER's growth, an NM-based 501c3 supporting engaging lens-based projects, since 2016. Starting as a volunteer for Review Santa Fe, Wernick is currently the Programs Manager.

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Wernick has participated on jury panels for Photolucida's Critical Mass Top 50  (2024), Santa Fe Reporter Photo Awards (2024), CENTER's Blue Earth Fiscal Sponsorship (2023), the reFocus Black and White Photo Awards (2022), and CENTER's Social Award (2021) and has co-curated and had a hand in producing the CENTER exhibitions Climate Truth in the Anthropocene (2019), The Big Reveal (2019), Color Cue (2018), and Conjured Futures (2018).​

 

Available for commissioned and contract work, remote and in-person. Please contact Whitney directly for information on purchasing custom designs, portfolios, and original works, or if you would like to work together on something a bit different.

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