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Stanley Whitney's abstract paintings and works on paper focus on the possibilities of color and form. He arranges his highly saturated color fields into ...

Biography. Stanley Whitney is a contemporary African-American artist known for his use of a loose grid of colors in his paintings. He has a wide range of references, including Egyptian hieroglyphs, jazz music, as well as the work of Bob Thompson and Giorgio Morandi.

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Oct 29, 2021 · BRIDGEHAMPTON — Stanley Whitney starts every painting the same way. Like a bricklayer, the 74-year-old artist paints a horizontal band along ...

Stanley Whitney has had solo exhibitions of his work at the Studio Museum in Harlem in New York (2015), the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (2017), and most ...

Mar 30, 2023 · The 77-year-old Whitney is the greatest Black abstract artist in America, and his patchwork canvases composed of wobbly blocks of high-key ...

Feb 15, 2024 · The show proves that Whitney has reworked motifs continuously, much as a composer develops a theme across movements of a symphony. His grids ...

Feb 19, 2024 · The 77-year-old abstractionist is the subject of a major career spanning survey that just opened at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum.

Artist Stanley Whitney was born in Philadelphia in 1946 and lives and works in New York City and Parma, Italy, and is currently Professor Emeritus of Painting ...