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Titled “Jack Whitten: The Messenger,” the show encompasses some 180 paintings, sculptures and works on paper, from a 1963 art-school collage to a final painting from just before he died in 2018.
By M.H. Miller Photographs by Nicholas Calcott FEW ARTISTS ARE as closely associated with Lower Manhattan as Jack Whitten ... who ran a paper-conservation studio at 36 Lispenard, had spent ...
For painter Jack Whitten, “everything was light,” said ... terms of its size but also of its blurring of the lines between collage, sculpture, abstraction, and figurative representation.” ...
this new survey at MoMA offers an even more expansive and rigorous account of Jack Whitten’s practice. Bringing together more than 175 paintings, sculptures and works on paper, the show traces ...
The euphoric occasion for such melancholy reflection is “Jack Whitten: The Messenger,” a Museum of Modern Art retrospective opening Sunday (through Aug. 2). The show was organized by Michelle ...
Jack Whitten ... sculpture, works on paper, and archival materials that, Kuo said, represent the “endless innovation” of Whitten, who died in 2018, at 78. Aspiring Whitten collectors will ...
It also misattributed Katy Siegel's quotation about the injustices Whitten faced to Kelly Baum and rendered the title of the exhibit incorrectly. It is "Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture 1963-2016." ...
Jack Whitten’s giant-sized mosaic-painting 9. ... “New York’s Hometown Paper,” legible below. The other says, mysteriously, “REMEMBER YOUR COPY.” Given the nearby footprints, they ...
In the early 1970s, US artist Jack Whitten underwent a ... For the remainder of the 1970s, Whitten relentlessly pushed the limits of his tools and techniques across different mediums, from acrylic ...
But that thought is too depressing. The euphoric occasion for such melancholy reflection is “Jack Whitten: The Messenger,” a Museum of Modern Art retrospective opening Sunday (through Aug. 2).