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Jack Whitten

Jack Whitten (1939 - 2018) was active/lived in New York.  Jack Whitten is known for Abstract mosaic-like paintings, African-American themes, wood carved sculpture.

An Old-School Painter Adapts to a New World Order: Jack Whitten’s 50-Year Evolution," By Alex Greenberger, ARTNEWS, Posted 01/19/16

In 1974, a monolithic, fire-red painting by Jack Whitten debuted in the Whitney’s lobby gallery. Whitten made the painting, titled Sorcerer’s Apprentice, by laying the canvas on the floor, dragging a squeegee across it to mix colors, and letting the quarter-inch-thick layer of paint dry. It was one of several pieces known as the artist’s “Slab” works, and, like the others in the series, it came and went from the museum without much fanfare.

Whitten was an abstract painter—and an African American one, at that—when the odds were stacked against him; in the mid-’70s, as tastes skewed more toward the restraint of Minimalism and black artists were largely ignored by institutions, he was lucky to have gotten a show at the Whitney at all.

Thirty-one years later, in 2015, the Whitney’s curators, realizing they had a gap in thei   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 22794 characters.]  Artist bio

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