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| Jack Whitten Garden In Bessemer , 1980, Acrylic on Canvas, 58 x 52 inches. Image via mcasd.org, courtesy the artist, Alexander Gray Associates, New York; Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp. |
Jack
Whitten: Five Decades of Painting
September 20, 2014 – January 4, 2015
700
Prospect Street
La Jolla,
CA
From
mcasd.org:
For five
decades, Jack Whitten (b. 1939, Bessemer, AL) has kept time through his innovative
studio process. In his canvases, he explores the possibilities of paint, the
role of the artist, and the allure of material essence. As a child of the
segregated south, he bears witness to expressions of evil and the resilience of
the human spirit. As a diligent formalist, Whitten explores and exploits the
newest acrylic and dry pigment media, the register of the image, and the edge
of the canvas. As the New York artist, schooled in the sixties and maturing in
the seventies, he balances on the fulcrum of the century that was and the
century to come. He is an artist of his moment due precisely to his respect for
the past and commitment to the present. Whitten creates in the moment in order
to harness the essence of matter. From his first spectral canvases, as a
graphic trace of a haunted soul, to his recent "Apps for Obama," a
key for complex, contemporary life, Whitten’s poetic and physically compelling
compositions capture what is needed, what is left, what is remembered, and what
is next. Jack Whitten: Five Decades of
Painting surveys this enduring artist’s career with approximately 60
canvasses from the mid-1960s to the present.
Jack Whitten: Five Decades of Painting is organized by the Museum
of Contemporary Art San Diego and made possible by generous lead underwriting
support from Dr. Paul Jacobs, and presenting corporate sponsorship from RBC
Wealth Management. Additional funding has been provided by The Andy Warhol
Foundation for the Visual Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and
proceeds from the 2014 Biennial Art Auction. Institutional support of MCASD is
provided by the City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture and the
County of San Diego Community Enhancement Fund.
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