​Whitney Erin Wernick  (wew - born May 1995) is a visual artist, lover, and rebel who shares her connection with nature, her body, and today's beautiful yet extremely harsh world in an innovative and genuine technique. Wernick's focus is made up of self-portraits, the raw, nude, and natural world, exploring the female experience, textile and pattern design, interactive and abstract installations, all 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, Romantic, Surrealist, and Contemporary artists and poets, Wernick evolves her identity daily through various mediums. 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 and web manager, and assistant. Her work can be found in private collections, homes, and offices scattered around the United States - let's talk about adding something unique to your walls.

 

Wernick received a BFA in Photographic and Studio Art practices from the Santa Fe University of Art and Design in 2018. While living in New Mexico, she has worked with several acclaimed creatives and organizations, including New Mexico-based 501(c)(3) CENTER which supports engaging photographic and lens-based projects around the world; fashion, commercial, and fine art photographer Peter Ogilvie; sculptor Tom Joyce; Belle Fine Jewelry; The Lensic: Performing Arts Center in Santa Fe, and photographers Don Usner and Gabriella Marks, amongst others.​ Wernick has been honored with participating on jury panels for CENTER's Blue Earth Fiscal Sponsorship (2025, 2024 & 2023) Photolucida's Critical Mass Top 50  (2025 & 2024), Santa Fe Reporter Photo Awards (2024), the reFocus Black and White Photo Awards (2021), and CENTER's Social Award (2021) and has co-curated and had a hand in producing a photographic discussion series The Democratic Lens, and the CENTER exhibitions The Anti-Uranium Mapping Project: Church Rock Spill of 1979 (2025), From the Field: Nuclear Legacy (2025), Friction (2025), Climate Truth in the Anthropocene (2019), The Big Reveal (2019), Splendor & Misery: Photographs by Joel-Peter Witkin (2018), Color Cue (2018), and Conjured Futures (2018).​

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Thanks for being here. I am available for commissioned and contract work, remote and in person. Currently located in and around DFW Texas and northern Michigan. Please contact me if you would like to work together on something a bit different.​ ~ WEW

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