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Jack Whitten
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Jack Whitten at Dia Beacon

JACK WHITTEN: THE GREEK ALPHABET PAINTINGS

Dia Beacon, Beacon, United States of America
November 18, 2022 - July 10, 2023

ZENO X GALLERY - Jack Whitten at Dia Beacon

Jack Whitten at the New Museum, New York

GRIEF AND GRIEVANCE: ART AND MOURNING IN AMERICA

New Museum, New York, United States of America
January 27, 2021 - June 13, 2021

ZENO X GALLERY - Jack Whitten at the New Museum, New York

Jack Whitten at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin

JACK'S JACK

Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
March 29 - September 1, 2019

ZENO X GALLERY - Jack Whitten at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin

Jack Whitten at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

ODYSSEY: JACK WHITTEN SCULPTURE, 1963 - 2016

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, United States of America
March 3 - May 27, 2019

ZENO X GALLERY - Jack Whitten at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Jack Whitten at The Met Breuer, New York

ODYSSEY: JACK WHITTEN SCULPTURE, 1963 - 2017

The Met Breuer, New York, United States of America
September 6 - December 2, 2018

ZENO X GALLERY - Jack Whitten at The Met Breuer, New York

Jack Whitten at Fondazione Prada, Milan

SANGUINE. LUC TUYMANS ON BAROQUE

Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy
October 18, 2018 - February 25, 2019

ZENO X GALLERY - Jack Whitten at Fondazione Prada, Milan

Jack Whitten at Baltimore Museum of Art

ODYSSEY: JACK WHITTEN SCULPTURE, 1963 - 2016

Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, United States of America
April 22 - July 29, 2018

ZENO X GALLERY - Jack Whitten at Baltimore Museum of Art

Jack Whitten at Tate Modern, London

SOUL OF A NATION: ART IN THE AGE OF BLACK POWER 1963 - 1983

Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
July 12, 2017 - October 22, 2017

ZENO X GALLERY - Jack Whitten at Tate Modern, London

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Jack Whitten
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Jack Whitten (1939, Bessemer, Alabama (US) – 2018, New York (US))

Jack Whitten's earliest experiments with painting date back to the 1960s, when he created dynamic works inspired by abstract expressionism. Noted for their raucous colours and density of gesture combined with topical content, these artworks manifested emotionally complex meditations on Dr. Martin Luther King, the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War.

Experimentation turned to abstraction for Whitten in the 1970s. A new method of painting developed, one that resonated more closely with photography. Gesture was removed from the making of the work. The paint and canvas were ‘processed’, produced from large troughs of paint, dragged across the canvas with tools including squeegees, rakes and Afro combs. This process yielded palpable surface texture, line and void.

Paint became a metaphor for skin during the 1980s, when Whitten experimented with ‘casting’ acrylic paints and compounds to create new surfaces and textures. In contrast to the narrative-based and didactic pieces made by many Black artists during this period, Whitten’s works reintroduced gesture with aspects of sculpture and collage.

In the 1990s Whitten's experiments with paint as a medium progressed further towards sculpture, as he transformed paint compounds into tiles and applied them to the canvas as mosaics. These works allude to ancient architecture and murals, serving as both an homage to and memorial of celebrated public figures and intimate friends.

Jack Whitten had solo exhibitions at MoMA PS1 (New York), Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin), Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Museum of Contemporary Art (San Diego), Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus), The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (Ridgefield), Rose Art Museum (Waltham), The Studio Museum in Harlem (New York), Baltimore Museum of Art and Atlanta Contemporary Art Center.

Jack Whitten participated in both the Venice Biennale (2013) and the Whitney Biennial (1969 and 1972). His work featured in group shows at Tate Modern (London), The Menil Collection (Houston), Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), Fondazione Prada (Milan), Brooklyn Museum (New York), Haus der Kunst (Munich), New Museum (New York), Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, MOCA (Los Angeles) and MCA (Chicago).

Jack Whitten joined the gallery in 2011.

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Mounira Al Solh, Strauss Bourque-LaFrance, Miriam Cahn, Marlene Dumas, Mary Heilmann, Sanya Kantarovsky, Leah Ke Yi Zheng, Moshekwa Langa, Rosalind Nashashibi, Anh Trần, Jack Whitten, Dan Zhu
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Soul Mapping
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Zeno X Gallery Antwerp Borgerhout | 16.09 - 28.10 2023
Mounira Al Solh, Strauss Bourque-LaFrance, Miriam Cahn, Marlene Dumas, Mary Heilmann, Sanya Kantarovsky, Leah Ke Yi Zheng, Moshekwa Langa, Rosalind Nashashibi, Anh Trần, Jack Whitten, Dan Zhu
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Soul Mapping
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Zeno X Gallery Antwerp Borgerhout | 16.09 - 28.10 2023
Mounira Al Solh, Strauss Bourque-LaFrance, Miriam Cahn, Marlene Dumas, Mary Heilmann, Sanya Kantarovsky, Leah Ke Yi Zheng, Moshekwa Langa, Rosalind Nashashibi, Anh Trần, Jack Whitten, Dan Zhu
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Soul Mapping
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Zeno X Gallery Antwerp Borgerhout | 16.09 - 28.10 2023
Mounira Al Solh, Strauss Bourque-LaFrance, Miriam Cahn, Marlene Dumas, Mary Heilmann, Sanya Kantarovsky, Leah Ke Yi Zheng, Moshekwa Langa, Rosalind Nashashibi, Anh Trần, Jack Whitten, Dan Zhu
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Soul Mapping
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Zeno X Gallery Antwerp Borgerhout | 16.09 - 28.10 2023
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Mounira Al Solh, Strauss Bourque-LaFrance, Miriam Cahn, Marlene Dumas, Mary Heilmann, Sanya Kantarovsky, Leah Ke Yi Zheng, Moshekwa Langa, Rosalind Nashashibi, Anh Trần, Jack Whitten, Dan Zhu
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Soul Mapping
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Zeno X Gallery Antwerp Borgerhout | 16.09 - 28.10 2023
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Strauss Bourque-LaFrance, Raoul De Keyser, Marlene Dumas, Marina Rheingantz, Salman Toor, Luc Tuymans, Jack Whitten
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Soul Mapping
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Zeno X Gallery Antwerp South | 16.09 - 28.10 2023
Strauss Bourque-LaFrance, Raoul De Keyser, Marlene Dumas, Marina Rheingantz, Salman Toor, Luc Tuymans, Jack Whitten
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Soul Mapping
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Zeno X Gallery Antwerp South | 16.09 - 28.10 2023
Strauss Bourque-LaFrance, Raoul De Keyser, Marlene Dumas, Marina Rheingantz, Salman Toor, Luc Tuymans, Jack Whitten
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Soul Mapping
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Zeno X Gallery Antwerp South | 16.09 - 28.10 2023
Strauss Bourque-LaFrance, Raoul De Keyser, Marlene Dumas, Marina Rheingantz, Salman Toor, Luc Tuymans, Jack Whitten
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Soul Mapping
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Zeno X Gallery Antwerp South | 16.09 - 28.10 2023
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Strauss Bourque-LaFrance, Raoul De Keyser, Marlene Dumas, Marina Rheingantz, Salman Toor, Luc Tuymans, Jack Whitten
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Soul Mapping
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Zeno X Gallery Antwerp South | 16.09 - 28.10 2023
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Jack Whitten
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Jack Whitten: The Greek Alphabet Paintings
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Dia:Beacon, New York, United States of America | 18.11 2022 - 10.07 2023
Jack Whitten
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Jack Whitten: The Greek Alphabet Paintings
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Dia:Beacon, New York, United States of America | 18.11 2022 - 10.07 2023
Jack Whitten
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Jack Whitten: The Greek Alphabet Paintings
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Dia:Beacon, New York, United States of America | 18.11 2022 - 10.07 2023
Jack Whitten
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Jack Whitten: The Greek Alphabet Paintings
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Dia:Beacon, New York, United States of America | 18.11 2022 - 10.07 2023
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Jack Whitten: The Greek Alphabet Paintings
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Dia:Beacon, New York, United States of America | 18.11 2022 - 10.07 2023
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N. Dash, Jan De Maesschalck, Pélagie Gbaguidi, Kees Goudzwaard, Susan Hartnett, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Naoto Kawahara, Martin Margiela, Philip Metten, Paulo Monteiro, Jockum Nordström, Marina Rheingantz, Pietro Roccasalva, Grace Schwindt, Jenny Scobel, Hyun-Sook Song, Bart Stolle, Mircea Suciu, Jack Whitten
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40 Years Zeno X Gallery - the two-thousands
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Zeno X Gallery Antwerp South | 24.09 - 12.11 2022
N. Dash, Jan De Maesschalck, Pélagie Gbaguidi, Kees Goudzwaard, Susan Hartnett, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Naoto Kawahara, Martin Margiela, Philip Metten, Paulo Monteiro, Jockum Nordström, Marina Rheingantz, Pietro Roccasalva, Grace Schwindt, Jenny Scobel, Hyun-Sook Song, Bart Stolle, Mircea Suciu, Jack Whitten
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40 Years Zeno X Gallery - the two-thousands
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Zeno X Gallery Antwerp South | 24.09 - 12.11 2022
N. Dash, Jan De Maesschalck, Pélagie Gbaguidi, Kees Goudzwaard, Susan Hartnett, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Naoto Kawahara, Martin Margiela, Philip Metten, Paulo Monteiro, Jockum Nordström, Marina Rheingantz, Pietro Roccasalva, Grace Schwindt, Jenny Scobel, Hyun-Sook Song, Bart Stolle, Mircea Suciu, Jack Whitten
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40 Years Zeno X Gallery - the two-thousands
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Zeno X Gallery Antwerp South | 24.09 - 12.11 2022
N. Dash, Jan De Maesschalck, Pélagie Gbaguidi, Kees Goudzwaard, Susan Hartnett, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Naoto Kawahara, Martin Margiela, Philip Metten, Paulo Monteiro, Jockum Nordström, Marina Rheingantz, Pietro Roccasalva, Grace Schwindt, Jenny Scobel, Hyun-Sook Song, Bart Stolle, Mircea Suciu, Jack Whitten
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40 Years Zeno X Gallery - the two-thousands
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Zeno X Gallery Antwerp South | 24.09 - 12.11 2022
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N. Dash, Jan De Maesschalck, Pélagie Gbaguidi, Kees Goudzwaard, Susan Hartnett, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Naoto Kawahara, Martin Margiela, Philip Metten, Paulo Monteiro, Jockum Nordström, Marina Rheingantz, Pietro Roccasalva, Grace Schwindt, Jenny Scobel, Hyun-Sook Song, Bart Stolle, Mircea Suciu, Jack Whitten
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40 Years Zeno X Gallery - the two-thousands
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Zeno X Gallery Antwerp South | 24.09 - 12.11 2022
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Jack’s Jacks
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Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany | 29.03 - 01.09 2019
Jack Whitten
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Jack’s Jacks
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Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany | 29.03 - 01.09 2019
Jack Whitten
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Jack’s Jacks
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Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany | 29.03 - 01.09 2019
Jack Whitten
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Jack’s Jacks
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Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany | 29.03 - 01.09 2019
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Jack’s Jacks
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Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany | 29.03 - 01.09 2019
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Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture 1963 - 2017
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Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, United States of America | 22.04 - 29.07 2018
Jack Whitten
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Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture 1963 - 2017
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Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, United States of America | 22.04 - 29.07 2018
Jack Whitten
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Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture 1963 - 2017
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Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, United States of America | 22.04 - 29.07 2018
Jack Whitten
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Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture 1963 - 2017
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Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, United States of America | 22.04 - 29.07 2018
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Jack Whitten
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Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture 1963 - 2017
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Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, United States of America | 22.04 - 29.07 2018
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Dirk Braeckman, Marlene Dumas, Kim Jones, Mark Manders, Philip Metten, Pietro Roccasalva, Hyun-Sook Song, Luc Tuymans, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Jack Whitten
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Works on Paper II
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Zeno X Gallery | 07.03 - 28.04 2018
Dirk Braeckman, Marlene Dumas, Kim Jones, Mark Manders, Philip Metten, Pietro Roccasalva, Hyun-Sook Song, Luc Tuymans, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Jack Whitten
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Works on Paper II
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Zeno X Gallery | 07.03 - 28.04 2018
Dirk Braeckman, Marlene Dumas, Kim Jones, Mark Manders, Philip Metten, Pietro Roccasalva, Hyun-Sook Song, Luc Tuymans, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Jack Whitten
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Works on Paper II
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Zeno X Gallery | 07.03 - 28.04 2018
Dirk Braeckman, Marlene Dumas, Kim Jones, Mark Manders, Philip Metten, Pietro Roccasalva, Hyun-Sook Song, Luc Tuymans, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Jack Whitten
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Works on Paper II
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Zeno X Gallery | 07.03 - 28.04 2018
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Dirk Braeckman, Marlene Dumas, Kim Jones, Mark Manders, Philip Metten, Pietro Roccasalva, Hyun-Sook Song, Luc Tuymans, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Jack Whitten
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Dirk Braeckman, Susan Hartnett, Jockum Nordström, Jack Whitten
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Zeno X Gallery | 09.03 - 09.04 2016
Dirk Braeckman, Susan Hartnett, Jockum Nordström, Jack Whitten
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Zeno X Gallery | 09.03 - 09.04 2016
Dirk Braeckman, Susan Hartnett, Jockum Nordström, Jack Whitten
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Zeno X Gallery | 09.03 - 09.04 2016
Dirk Braeckman, Susan Hartnett, Jockum Nordström, Jack Whitten
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Zeno X Gallery | 09.03 - 09.04 2016
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Dirk Braeckman, Susan Hartnett, Jockum Nordström, Jack Whitten
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Zeno X Gallery | 09.03 - 09.04 2016
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Jack Whitten: Five Decades of Painting
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Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, United States of America | 13.09 2015 - 24.01 2016
Jack Whitten
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Jack Whitten: Five Decades of Painting
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Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, United States of America | 13.09 2015 - 24.01 2016
Jack Whitten
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Jack Whitten: Five Decades of Painting
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Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, United States of America | 13.09 2015 - 24.01 2016
Jack Whitten
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Jack Whitten: Five Decades of Painting
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Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, United States of America | 13.09 2015 - 24.01 2016
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Jack Whitten
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Jack Whitten: Five Decades of Painting
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Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, United States of America | 13.09 2015 - 24.01 2016
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● Jack Whitten: Five Decades of Painting

 

curator: Kathryn Kanjo

Jack Whitten
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Escalation
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Zeno X Gallery | 29.04 - 27.06 2015
Jack Whitten
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Escalation
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Zeno X Gallery | 29.04 - 27.06 2015
Jack Whitten
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Escalation
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Zeno X Gallery | 29.04 - 27.06 2015
Jack Whitten
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Escalation
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Zeno X Gallery | 29.04 - 27.06 2015
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Zeno X Gallery is honored to present a third solo show by the Afro-American abstract painter Jack Whitten (°1939, Bessemer, Alabama). The work of Jack Whitten is currently being celebrated by a retrospective, ‘Jack Whitten: Five Decades of Painting’, which opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in September 2014, travels to the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus in May 2015, and onwards to the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in September 2015.

For Zeno X, he has made a new body of paintings in which he continues to push the material possibilities of acrylic paint as applied to abstract painting.  The so-called ‘death of painting’ has been alluded to over and over in recent history, yet Whitten categorically rejects that absurd assessment. These paintings remind us of pre-modernist historical references in their allusion to ancient mosaics. They also allude to concepts of space, time and its relationship to modern technology. Whitten’s worldview, based on his interest in quantum physics, cosmology, fractal geometry, topology, bio-engineering, mathematics, biology, chemistry, and psychology, provides the conceptual underpinnings of his paintings. Jazz music, philosophy and the collective memory of identity are a complex balancing act in his construction of a non-figurative abstract narrative. Whitten insists that his works are not an illustration of an idea. His titles are specific for each painting and provide a hook in our understanding of their meaning. He is a process-oriented artist who cultivates controlled gesture compressed through the materiality of paint. Whitten claims that the painting is the reproduction of a concept.

In 1964 he wrote on his studio wall “The image is photographic; therefore, I must photograph my thoughts.” In 1970 Jack Whitten abandoned figurative abstraction, and the brush, to distance himself from abstract expressionist painters such as Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline and Jackson Pollock. The studio became a laboratory. He constructed a large 3,5 by 6 meter drawing board on the studio floor, absolutely level and square to prevent any arbitrary movement of paint. The verb ‘to paint’ was replaced by the verb ‘to make’. He made a big tool, which he called ‘the developer’. With the developer, the picture plane was reduced to one gesture. This profound innovation is what allowed him to bypass the abstract expressionist masters: he had completed his first objective. Navigating through the 50 years of painting, distinct periods can be distinguished based on formal and technical evolutions. The ‘Slab paintings’, ‘Cut Acrylic’, and ‘Greek Alphabet Series’ mark the historical works dating from the seventies. In 1974 Jack Whitten was one of four artists in residence at the Xerox Corporation who were selected to experiment with their equipment and interact with their technicians. This experience was very influential to his studio practice. It was the Xerox experimentations that opened his mind to the possibility of paint as matter.

Whitten has always insisted that all art is about perception, but his interest in perception is its application to abstraction painting in particular. In October 2005 he explained the relation between abstraction and perception as the following: 

“Abstraction is a particular tool of perception, akin to a microscope. Because of its present historical location in time and space, as evident within the history of painting, abstraction has slowly but surely plunged painters into the molecular dimensions of inner space. When abstract painters advanced beyond the dependence on nature’s abundant resources of symbolic references, they were forced internally into mind as matter. Mind as matter is uncharted territory: there are no maps, and new tools must be invented.”

In the 1980s, Whitten’s historical two-dimensional plane evolved into a concrete three-dimensional plane.  His use of sculptural techniques involved the use of plaster of Paris molds from found objects cast in acrylic paint.  This allowed the paint to operate without support. Therefore, the acrylic paint had become a medium of collage; this allowed him to address the problem of subject matter in abstraction. Jazz musicians, poets, family members, important members of the African-American community, honored as Black Monoliths are the subject of many paintings. For his current show, Alexander Grothendieck, a German-born French mathematician who played an important role in the development of modern algebraic geometry is the subject of Escalation II (x² + y² = 1) For Alexander Grothendieck; Leonard Nimoy know as ‘Dr. Spock’ on Star Trek is the subject of Vulcan Philosophy (“Infinite diversity in infinite combinations”) For: Dr. Spock.

In 1990 Whitten discovered that his acrylic skins that were used as collage could be cut into tesserae. Tesserae are the units in ancient mosaics. They also function as pixels, which are the units in contemporary electronic communication. Due to the complexity of process he divides it into three distinct processes: Construction, Deconstruction, Reconstruction. Construction is the building of the acrylic skin. Deconstruction is the literal cutting or breaking of the unit after freezing the skin. Reconstruction is the final making of the painting. In response to hand surgery in 2012, the tesserae disappeared into a unified wave surface with a three-dimensional line embedded in the wet acrylic surface, these are known as the Loop paintings. The current Escalation series continues the use of tesserae, but with a more explosive, organic energy. They reflect his interest in the molecular patterns found in particle physics. Cosmologically speaking, Whitten’s position is that the universe is both expanding and shrinking simultaneously.

Jack Whitten’s works are currently included in group shows at: Foundation De 11 Lijnen, Oudenburg; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Upcoming group shows will be at The Menil Collection, Houston; Kunstmuseum Stuttgart. For ‘Atopolis’, a group show in Mons curated by Dirk Snauwaert, Whitten has created a monumental piece that will be on view from 13 June until 18 October 2015. His work has been exhibited in the 1969 and 1972 Whitney Annuals at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and a landmark 1974 solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Recently, Whitten’s work has been featured at the Brooklyn Museum (2014); Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle (2014), 55th Venice Biennale (2013); among others. His work is represented in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; Whitney Museum of Art, New York; Birmingham Museum of Art; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland; Columbia University, New York; Fogg Art Museum of Art, New York; High Museum of Art Atlanta, Atlanta; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego; Newark Mseum; Newark; Palm Springs museum, Palm Springs; Princeton Art Museum, Princeton; Rose Art Museum, Waltham/Boston; SFMOMA, San Francisco; Studio Museum of Harlem, New York; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas among others.

Jan De Maesschalck, Marlene Dumas, Susan Hartnett, Johannes Kahrs, John Körmeling, Jockum Nordström, Pietro Roccasalva, Luc Tuymans, Jack Whitten
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Works on Paper II
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Zeno X Gallery | 21.01 - 28.02 2015
Jan De Maesschalck, Marlene Dumas, Susan Hartnett, Johannes Kahrs, John Körmeling, Jockum Nordström, Pietro Roccasalva, Luc Tuymans, Jack Whitten
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Works on Paper II
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Zeno X Gallery | 21.01 - 28.02 2015
Jan De Maesschalck, Marlene Dumas, Susan Hartnett, Johannes Kahrs, John Körmeling, Jockum Nordström, Pietro Roccasalva, Luc Tuymans, Jack Whitten
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Works on Paper II
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Zeno X Gallery | 21.01 - 28.02 2015
Jan De Maesschalck, Marlene Dumas, Susan Hartnett, Johannes Kahrs, John Körmeling, Jockum Nordström, Pietro Roccasalva, Luc Tuymans, Jack Whitten
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Zeno X Gallery | 21.01 - 28.02 2015
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Jan De Maesschalck, Marlene Dumas, Susan Hartnett, Johannes Kahrs, John Körmeling, Jockum Nordström, Pietro Roccasalva, Luc Tuymans, Jack Whitten
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Jack Whitten
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Jack Whitten: Five Decades of Painting
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The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, United States of America | 20.09 2014 - 04.01 2015
Jack Whitten
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Jack Whitten: Five Decades of Painting
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The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, United States of America | 20.09 2014 - 04.01 2015
Jack Whitten
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Jack Whitten: Five Decades of Painting
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The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, United States of America | 20.09 2014 - 04.01 2015
Jack Whitten
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The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, United States of America | 20.09 2014 - 04.01 2015
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The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, United States of America | 20.09 2014 - 04.01 2015
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curator: Kathryn Kanjo

Kees Goudzwaard, Bart Stolle, Jack Whitten
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Kees Goudzwaard . Bart Stolle . Jack Whitten
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Zeno X Gallery | 01.09 - 12.10 2013
Kees Goudzwaard, Bart Stolle, Jack Whitten
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Kees Goudzwaard . Bart Stolle . Jack Whitten
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Zeno X Gallery | 01.09 - 12.10 2013
Kees Goudzwaard, Bart Stolle, Jack Whitten
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Kees Goudzwaard . Bart Stolle . Jack Whitten
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Zeno X Gallery | 01.09 - 12.10 2013
Kees Goudzwaard, Bart Stolle, Jack Whitten
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Kees Goudzwaard . Bart Stolle . Jack Whitten
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Zeno X Gallery | 01.09 - 12.10 2013
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Kees Goudzwaard, Bart Stolle, Jack Whitten
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Zeno X Gallery | 01.09 - 12.10 2013
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KEES GOUDZWAARD

The paintings by Kees Goudzwaard are bright, controlled and hide any emotional presence of its maker. Being a Dutch painter, Goudzwaard can’t deny the influence of Dutch Modernism. Especially De Stijl was inspiring for the development of his oeuvre. Each painting by Goudzwaard is based on a model. He combines colored paper, transparent acetates and tape just the way a collage would be organized. It’s a slow process of shifts and superpositions. Scale, color, form and composition challenge each other on a formal level. Goudzwaard acts according to his own logic. Finally he aims for a balance between all the components of the painting. In ‘Slow Rocking’ and ‘Collected’ we recognize the discipline and the almost mathematical structuring of the surface as we see in earlier work. This in contrast to the more playful, organic and open composition in ‘Grisaille’, ‘Study’ & ‘Assembling the Smaller Parts’. In those works the borders determine the tension within the painting.

Solo exhibitions by Kees Goudzwaard where installed at S.M.A.K. in Ghent, Culturgest in Lisbon, the Museum of Modern Art in Arnhem and at the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam. In 2003 he was invited to create a site-specific installation in Mexico City. His work was part of group exhibitions at Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, Museum Kunst Palast in Düsseldorf, Roger Raveel Museum in Machelen-Zulte, Ecole des Beaux Art in Paris, Lokaal 01 in Breda, De Vleeshal in Middelburg and Castillo Corrales in Paris. Last year his work was included in the Biennial for Contemporary Art in Rennes.

BART STOLLE

Time and motion, that’s the start of the oeuvre of the young Belgian artist Bart Stolle (°1974). In the eighties he experienced as a teenager the introduction of commercial television and how images accumulate. Especially the personal computer and the internet change the gaze and the references. Since the invention of smart phones and tablets contemplation becomes even more difficult. Our society is saturated by speed, information and high-tec. Stolle investigates this phenomenon and choses to slow down. He focuses, mingles and (re)constructs. This leads to an oeuvre hold together under the flag ‘Low Fixed Media Show’, an advertising agency for himself or an alternative entertainment company. Despite all evolutions, Stolle is still convinced human beings dominate the machine. Creativity is a human thing that’s currently not mechanical. Stolle observes the world and translate it into humorous animations in which human figures are reduced to an arrangement of geometrical forms. Handicraft is high valued. He doesn’t want to pass on calculations to the computer. He prefers an intensive stop-motion practice over the input of parameters.

The same happens when Stolle paints, when he makes a static image. The result is a slow construction of essential units. Here we notice the influence of Modernism. Especially De Stijl, Suprematism with Malevich and the work by Kandinsky animate him. The personal alphabet of forms and colors Stolle creates is a means to express larger structures without illustrating them. He investigates the similarities between the logic of a computer and of a human and analyzes different society structures. Also his interest in communication systems, music, science, architecture and urbanization echoes through his oeuvre. He reconciles poles such as the virtual with reality, black with white, the organic with mechanics and so on. As much interesting for Stolle is the moment where the viewer attempts to put his images into words. Poetry, philosophy and fantasy emerge while translating.

Solo exhibitions by Bart Stolle were on view in S.M.A.K. in Ghent, De Brakke Grond in Amsterdam and STUK in Leuven. He was invited for group shows at MUHKA in Antwerp, De Loketten of the Flemish Parliament in Brussels, Coup de Ville in Sint-Niklaas, Buda Art center in Kortrijk, Centrum for Contemporary Art in Warsaw and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Shanghai.

JACK WHITTEN

Beginning of the seventies Jack Whitten (°1932) makes a decision that determines his complete oeuvre. He takes a distance of Abstract Expressionism, a movement that inspired him strongly during his years at Cooper Union in New York. He interchanges brush and figuration for instruments and abstraction. From that moment on a painting is no longer painted but constructed. Whitten investigates the characteristics of acrylic by boiling it, freezing it, laminating it, crushing it, casting it and spreading it all over. After collecting all his material and his tools, he starts building up the image as a collage. Since the eighties the sculptural and topographical quality of his paintings rises. His works on paper are always ahead of his paintings. He works with the concept of ‘working drawings’. The painting is not an illustration of an idea nor is the painting a reproduction of a drawing. The drawings operate as scouts always advancing ahead using process to search for new possibilities. Process as subject matter gives him a freedom to explore uncharted territory. In his work he reflects about philosophy, science, technology and use it as a mean to honor and commemorate people. Whitten’s abstract paintings aren’t cold, geometrical, anonymous and predictable. They are innovative, full of live, directed by controlled coincidences and strive for universality.

Work by Jack Whitten was part of important exhibitions such as the ‘Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting’ (1969,1972) in the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and ‘Afro-American Abstraction: An Exhibition of Contemporary painting and sculpture by Nineteen Black American Artists’ (1980) organized by the Institute for Art and Urban Resources and MoMA P.S.1 Center for Contemporary Arts in New York. In 1974 he got his first solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. More recently MoMA P.S.1 Center of Contemporary Arts in New York and Atlanta Contemporary Art Center organized a solo exhibition. The Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego is preparing a retrospective for 2014.

His work is in the collection of museums amongst which Museum for Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, Whitney Museum in New York, Studio Museum in Harlem, Metropolitan Museum in New York, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Museum for Contemporary Art Chicago, Dallas Museum of Art and Tate Modern in London.

 

Michaël Borremans, Dirk Braeckman, Anton Corbijn, Raoul De Keyser, Jan De Maesschalck, Marlene Dumas, Kees Goudzwaard, Kim Jones, Johannes Kahrs, Naoto Kawahara, John Körmeling, Mark Manders, Jockum Nordström, Grace Schwindt, Jenny Scobel, Bart Stolle, Luc Tuymans, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Jack Whitten, Cristof Yvoré
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Zeno X Gallery | 17.04 - 25.05 2013
Michaël Borremans, Dirk Braeckman, Anton Corbijn, Raoul De Keyser, Jan De Maesschalck, Marlene Dumas, Kees Goudzwaard, Kim Jones, Johannes Kahrs, Naoto Kawahara, John Körmeling, Mark Manders, Jockum Nordström, Grace Schwindt, Jenny Scobel, Bart Stolle, Luc Tuymans, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Jack Whitten, Cristof Yvoré
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Opening New Space
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Zeno X Gallery | 17.04 - 25.05 2013
Michaël Borremans, Dirk Braeckman, Anton Corbijn, Raoul De Keyser, Jan De Maesschalck, Marlene Dumas, Kees Goudzwaard, Kim Jones, Johannes Kahrs, Naoto Kawahara, John Körmeling, Mark Manders, Jockum Nordström, Grace Schwindt, Jenny Scobel, Bart Stolle, Luc Tuymans, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Jack Whitten, Cristof Yvoré
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Opening New Space
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Zeno X Gallery | 17.04 - 25.05 2013
Michaël Borremans, Dirk Braeckman, Anton Corbijn, Raoul De Keyser, Jan De Maesschalck, Marlene Dumas, Kees Goudzwaard, Kim Jones, Johannes Kahrs, Naoto Kawahara, John Körmeling, Mark Manders, Jockum Nordström, Grace Schwindt, Jenny Scobel, Bart Stolle, Luc Tuymans, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Jack Whitten, Cristof Yvoré
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Michaël Borremans, Dirk Braeckman, Anton Corbijn, Raoul De Keyser, Jan De Maesschalck, Marlene Dumas, Kees Goudzwaard, Kim Jones, Johannes Kahrs, Naoto Kawahara, John Körmeling, Mark Manders, Jockum Nordström, Grace Schwindt, Jenny Scobel, Bart Stolle, Luc Tuymans, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Jack Whitten, Cristof Yvoré
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Zeno X Gallery | 26.10 - 01.12 2012
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Dirk Braeckman, Jan De Maesschalck, Kees Goudzwaard, Bart Stolle, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Jack Whitten, Cristof Yvoré
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Zeno X Gallery | 11.05 - 09.06 2012
Dirk Braeckman, Jan De Maesschalck, Kees Goudzwaard, Bart Stolle, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Jack Whitten, Cristof Yvoré
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Dirk Braeckman, Jan De Maesschalck, Kees Goudzwaard, Bart Stolle, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Jack Whitten, Cristof Yvoré
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Dirk Braeckman, Jan De Maesschalck, Kees Goudzwaard, Bart Stolle, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Jack Whitten, Cristof Yvoré
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Dirk Braeckman, Jan De Maesschalck, Kees Goudzwaard, Bart Stolle, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Jack Whitten, Cristof Yvoré
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Jan De Maesschalck, Jockum Nordström, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Jack Whitten
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Zeno X Gallery | 09.12 2011 - 21.01 2012
Jan De Maesschalck, Jockum Nordström, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Jack Whitten
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Zeno X Gallery | 09.12 2011 - 21.01 2012
Jan De Maesschalck, Jockum Nordström, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Jack Whitten
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Jan De Maesschalck, Jockum Nordström, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Jack Whitten
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Jan De Maesschalck, Jockum Nordström, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Jack Whitten
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Zeno X Gallery | 18.03 - 07.05 2011
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2012
2011

Selected solo exhibitions

2022
2021
Jack Whitten, Hauser & Wirth, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region of China
2019
Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture 1963 - 2017, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, United States of America
2018
Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture 1963 - 2017, The Met Breuer, New York, United States of America
2017
More Dimensions Than You Know: Jack Whitten, 1979-1989, Hauser & Wirth, London, United Kingdom
Jack Whitten, Hauser & Wirth, New York, United States of America
2015
Jack Whitten: Five Decades of Painting, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, United States of America
2014
Jack Whitten: Evolver, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, United States of America
2013
Light Years: Jack Whitten, 1971-1973, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, United States of America
Jack Whitten, Alexander Gray Associates, New York, United States of America
2012
Erasures, Paintings from 1975-79, Savannah College of Art and Design, Museum of Art, Savannah, United States of America
2010
Jack Whitten and the Gallery’s 5th Year Anniversary, Alexander Gray Associates, New York, United States of America
2009
Jack Whitten, Alexander Gray Associates, New York, United States of America
2008
Memorial Paintings, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, United States of America
2007
Jack Whitten, Alexander Gray Associates, New York, United States of America
Jack Whitten, MoMA PS1, New York, United States of America
1989
Spirit and Matter, Newark Museum, Newark, United States of America
1983
Jack Whitten: Ten Years 1970-1980, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, United States of America
1978
Jack Whitten: Paintings and Drawings, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, United States of America
1977
Jack Whitten: Paintings, Montclair State College, Montclair, United States of America
1974
Jack Whitten: Paintings, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, United States of America
1970
Jack Whitten: Recent Paintings, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, United States of America
1969
Jack Whitten: Paintings and Drawings 1967-1968, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, United States of America

Selected group exhibitions

2023
2022
Currents and Constellations, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, United States of America
2021
Selected Works from The Paul R. Jones Collection of American Art at the University of Alabama, The Houston Museum of African American Culture (HMAAC), Houston, The United States of America
Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America, New Museum, New York, United States of America
Black Refractions | Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, United States of America
2020
All Things Bright and Beautiful, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, United States of America
Expanded Painting in the 1960s and 1970s, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, United States of America
Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963 - 1983, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, United Kingdom
Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, United States of America
2019
Trouble in Paradise, Collection Rattan Chadha, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2018
Sanguine. Luc Tuymans on Baroque, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy
Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963 - 1983, Brooklyn Museum, New York, United Kingdom
Sanguine/Bloedrood - Luc Tuymans on Baroque, M HKA, Antwerp, Belgium
Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963 - 1983, Crystal Bridges, Bentonville, United Kingdom
Open Ended: Painting and Sculpture, 1900 to Now, SFMOMA, San Francisco, United States of America
2017
The Legacy of Lynching: Confronting Racial Terror in America, Brooklyn Museum, New York, United States of America
Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963 - 1983, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
little lower layer, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, United States of America
2016
Postwar: Art between the Pacific and Atlantic 1945 - 1965, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
2015
A Constellation, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, United States of America
I Got Rhythm: Art and Jazz since 1920, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Apparition: Frottages and Rubbings from 1870 to Now, The Menil Collection, Houston, United States of America
Atopolis, Manège de Sury, Mons, Belgium
Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties, Blanton Museum, Austin, United States of America
Apparition: Frottages and Rubbings from 1860 to Now, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, United States of America
2014
Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties, Hood Museum, Vermont, United States of America
Art Expanded, 1958 – 1978, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, United States of America
Witness: Art, Activism, and Civil Rights in the Sixties, Brooklyn Museum, New York, United States of America
Top Drawer: Select Drawings from the High’s Collection, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, United States of America
2013
Blues For Smoke, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, United States of America
Il Palazzo Enciclopedico/ The Encyclopedic Palace, 55th International Art Exhibition, Venice, Italy
NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, New Museum, New York, United States of America
Blues For Smoke, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, United States of America
Black in the Abstract, Part 2: Hard Edges/Soft Curves, CAMH, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, United States of America
2012
Blues For Smoke, MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, United States of America
Phantom Limb: Approaches to Painting Today, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, United States of America
2011
The Bearden Project, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, United States of America
2010
Greater New York Rotating Gallery 3: The Comfort of Strangers, MoMA PS1, New York, United States of America
2007
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now, MoMA, New York, United States of America
Orpheus Selection: In Search of Darkness, MoMA PS1, New York, United States of America
Tiempos intensos, tiempos dificiles: Pintura de Nueva York 1967-1975, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
2001
In The Spirit of Martin: The Living Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., The Smithsonian Institution (SITES), Washington D.C., United States of America
1996
In The Flesh, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, United States of America
Art at the End of the 20th Century, Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art; National Gallery, Alexander Soutzos Museum (Athens); Museu d’Art Contemporani (Barcelona); Kunstmuseum Bonn, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, United States of America
1995
Painting Faculty, The Cooper Union Art School, New York, United States of America
1994
30 Years - Art in the Present Tense: The Aldrich’s Curatorial History 1964-1994, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, United States of America
1993
Skin Deep, New Museum, New York, United States of America
1992
Slow Art: Painting in New York Now, MoMA PS1, New York, United States of America
1979
The 1970’s New American Painting, New Museum, New York, United States of America
Another Generation: Contemporary Abstractionists, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, United States of America
1977
Reinstallation of the Twentieth Century Art Galleries, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States of America
1976
Selected Works by Black Artists from the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corp./ Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States of America
1974
Tenth Anniversary 1964-1974, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, United States of America
1972
Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, United States of America
1971
Untitled II, The Junior Council Art Lending Service, MoMA, New York, United States of America
1969
1969 Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, United States of America
1968
In Honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., MoMA, New York, United States of America
New Voices: 15 New York Artists, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, United States of America

Public collections

Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, United States of America
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, United States of America
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, United States of America
Columbia University, New York, United States of America
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, United States of America
Fogg Art Museum at Harvard, Cambridge, United States of America
High Museum of Art Atlanta, Atlanta, United States of America
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States of America
MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States of America
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, United States of America
Newark Museum, Newark, United States of America
Palm Springs Museum, Palm Springs, United States of America
Princeton Art Museum, Princeton, United States of America
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham/Boston, United States of America
SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, United States of America
Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, United States of America
Tate Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, New York, United States of America
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, United States of America
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, United States of America

Press

“Jack Whitten’s ‘Lost Chapter’, Now at Dia:Beacon”
The New York Times, article by Aruna D’Souza (online)
December 2022

“It’s All About Materiality: Watch Jack Whitten Experiment With the Physicality of Paint in His Abstract Artworks”
ArtNet News, article (online)
November 2022

“The art and wisdom of Jack Whitten”
Apollo, article by Richard Shiff (online)
January 2018

“Portfolio Jack Whitten”
Modern Painters, article by M.P. (p.21-23)
September 2013

“Jack Whitten: Committing Abstract Thoughts to Canvas”
The Wall Street Journal, article by Andy Battaglia (online)
February 2013

“Jack Whitten Portfolio. When does an image end?”
Artforum, vol. 50, no.6, article by Michelle Kuo (p.184-195)
February 2012

“Process, Image and Elegy”
Art in America, article by Saul Ostrow (p.148-153;183)
April 2008

“Jack Whitten with Robert Storr”
The Brooklyn Rail, article by Robert Storr (online)
September 2007

Jack Whitten
Books
Jack Whitten: Five Decades of Painting

Museum of Contemorary Art San Diego
San Diego, United States, 2015
192 pages, ISBN 9780934418744

Museum of Contemorary Art San Diego<br />San Diego, United States, 2015<br />192 pages, ISBN 9780934418744
Jack Whitten

Alexander Gray Associates
New York, United States, 2013
39 pages

Alexander Gray Associates<br />New York, United States, 2013<br />39 pages
Jack Whitten: Memory and Method

Zeno X Gallery
Antwerp, Belgium, 2011
47 pages

Zeno X Gallery<br />Antwerp, Belgium, 2011<br />47 pages
Jack Whitten: Memorial Paintings

Atlanta Contemporary Art Center
Atlanta, United States, 2008
70 pages, ISBN 9780615199658

Atlanta Contemporary Art Center<br />Atlanta, United States, 2008<br />70 pages, ISBN 9780615199658
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