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The American artist moved from the segregated South to the New York art world and beyond as he forged unique processes of ...
The euphoric occasion for such melancholy reflection is “Jack Whitten ... had he picked one path. But he had no interest in churning out branded “product.” In 1970, Whitten turned his ...
Jack Whitten ... American Apartheid,” the artist Jack Whitten wrote, a blunt fact that led him to project, in his art, a very different reality, one of “infinite diversity in infinite ...
You've referred to Whitten as 'a voracious thinker and maker'. What about his wide range of interests inspired this technical and conceptual switch in practice? Zoe Whitley: This is a big question and ...
For painter Jack Whitten ... But Whitten was “less interested in depicting light than in embodying it in paint,” and that ambition helped make the Black Alabama native “one of the ...
For half a century, Jack Whitten tore through an art world that ... and there he found a measure of serenity. One of the show’s thrilling surprises is a quasi-abstract landscape looking down ...
The largest ever exhibition of the work of Jack Whitten opens this ... experimental commitment that drove Whitten’s remarkable body of work. In Paris, one of the final exhibitions to open ...
Clark Atlanta University Art Museum, Gift of Dorothy Fisher In 1998, Jack Whitten wrote in his personal ... It is clearly time for a reevaluation—one that clears space for the adoption of ...
The euphoric occasion for such melancholy reflection is “Jack Whitten ... had he picked one path. But he had no interest in churning out branded “product.” In 1970, Whitten turned his ...
Following the survey of Jack Whitten’s free-standing work at the Met Breuer in 2018, we now get the full picture of this innovative and resonant artist, one who found freedom in the movement ...