MOMA pays tribute to a restlessly innovative artist whose life’s work was to give abstraction soul.

An MoMA retrospective on Jack Whitten is revealing his work to new and wider audiences. His market is more complicated.

He used these casts, along with hardened slabs of acrylic paint ... you could argue that Jack Whitten was an exemplary 20th-century artist. But that thought is too depressing.

“When my paintings cease to be challenging, I will simply find something else to do,” Jack Whitten wrote in a 1988 ... He poured layers of paint into “slabs” on the ground, then used ...

Jack Whitten, “9.11.01” (2006), a 20-foot ... a wall — to produce a series of paintings he referred to as “slabs.” Each painting consisted of several successive layers of paint with ...

By Yinka Elujoba Jack Whitten, who died in 2018 ... It took an innovation, his “slab painting” method in which, in a single motion, he dragged a tool he called the “developer” along ...

For painter Jack Whitten ... By 1964, Whitten had developed ways to create “sheets of light” on canvas. At MoMA, the scores of paintings on display that he created over the following ...

In the early 1970s, US artist Jack Whitten underwent a dramatic change in his practice. Moving away from the gestural approach of Abstract Expressionism, Whitten instead developed his own highly ...

In this spare context, Jack Whitten’s “Greek Alphabet” paintings practically quiver and dance. That’s striking because, in Whitten’s universe, the suite of black-and-white canvases ...

He used these casts, along with hardened slabs of acrylic paint ... Jack Whitten’s eyes. Jack Whitten: The Messenger Through Aug. 2 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.