Illinois / South Africa. Born 1973
Urban planning themes, installations, performance art, sculpture
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1939 Bessemer, Alabama - 2018 Manhattan, New York. 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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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 a... Read full biography
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New York, Louisiana, Michigan / France. 1926 - 2019
Shaped canvas, abstract stain painting, collage
Connecticut, New York. 1945 - 2017
Black portrait figure social commentary painting
New York, Illinois. Born 1977
Found object, multi-media sculpture, photography, black art themes
New York / England. Born 1936
Non-objective imagery, abstract painting
New York, California. Born 1943
Conceptual installations, assemblage, African-American genre
Michigan, New York. 1935 - 2005
Geometric abstract painting, collage reliefs
New York, Georgia. 1944 - 2020
Abstract symbolist mixed-media figure and genre easel and mural painting, teaching
Connecticut, California. 1922 - 1981
Wooden sculpture-mod droll imagery and found object
Arizona, California. 1925 - 2009
Mod satire-genre, crowds-objects
New York, California. Born 1969
Silhouette figures, racial themed work
California. Born 1961
Large-scale abstract collage-paper items
California, Louisiana. 1925 - 2015
Afro-American figurative and landscape painting, art collecting
New York, Tennessee. 1904 - 1991
Street genre, figure, portrait, mural
Illinois, District Of Columbia. 1914 - 1985
Harlequin figure portrait paintings, clownsset design, playwright
New York, Virginia. Born 1984
Conceptual art with language and history themes
Illinois, New York, California. 1918 - 1979
Black-American figure and genre and mural painting
New York, California. 1924 - 2024
Modernist landscape-imagery
Illinois, California, Georgia. 1931 - 1981
African-American figure painting and genre, lithographs
Illinois. Born 1938
Surreal-modernist whimsey
Georgia, New York / France. 1900 - 1980
Southern poverty images-paintings and history murals
Ohio, New Jersey, Florida, New Mexico. 1915 - 1999
Figure in desolate landscape painting, surrealism, teaching
District Of Columbia, Maryland. 1905 - 1970
Figure-genre, portrait and still life painting
New York. 1930 - 2024
African-American themed mixed-media sculpture, painting. drawing, figiures
New York, Connecticut. Born 1949
Non objective-funk, semi-figurative, prints
New York. 1928 - 2000
Modernist figure-images, illustrator-comic; educator
New York, Tennessee / Denmark. 1920 - 1998
Black child figures playing, landscape, genre, animal, fowl painting, woodcuts
Illinois, Alabama. Born 1955
Social-satire painting, history, allegory
New York / Europe, Netherlands. 1927 - 2015
Abstract painting, collage, jazz music motif
Florida. Born 1936
Watercolors, collage, woodcuts
Pennsylvania. 1937 - 2004
Ethnic genre painting, sculpture, art education
New Mexico, California. 1935 - 2012
Colorful ceramic objects-eggs, teacups, surreal forms