About Me
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, fashion design, and 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, 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 New Mexico-based 501(c)(3) supporting engaging lens-based projects, since 2016. Starting as a volunteer for Review Santa Fe, Wernick is currently the program manager and oversees all current programs and exhibitions.
Wernick has participated on jury panels for Photolucida's Critical Mass Top 50 (2025 & 2024), Santa Fe Reporter Photo Awards (2024), CENTER's Blue Earth Fiscal Sponsorship (2024 & 2023), the reFocus Black and White Photo Awards (2021), and CENTER's Social Award (2021) and has co-curated and had a hand in producing the CENTER exhibitions 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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