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Black Monolith IX by Jack Whitten
Jack Whitten (1939-2018) — Black in Time [acrylic on canvas, 1980]
Jack Whitten (1939-2018) — Black Monolith IX. Open Circle for Ornette Coleman. (acrylic on canvas, 2015)
Self Portrait: Entrainment 2008
Acrylic and sunglass lenses on canvas Jack Whitten Estate
Seen: April 26, 2025 Museum of Modern Art, New York Jack Whitten: The Messenger March 23 - August 3, 2025 His Xerox works are particularly revealing, demonstrating an early engagement with mechanical reproduction, chance, and fragmentation as generative forces, with the machine functioning as an active collaborator rather than a neutral tool. In dialogue with these works, the large-scale abstract paintings assert a powerful material and emotional presence, built through unconventional methods and custom tools that compress and drag acrylic into dense, architectural surfaces. Together, these bodies of work underscore Whitten’s belief that abstraction could absorb memory, history, and cultural weight without figuration, and that innovation in technique was fundamental to meaning rather than incidental to it.
I am on my way to glory a child of the plane the square is my play box the triangle my source the circle my absolute I am on my way to glory I am on my way to glory I am on my way to glory A child of the plane - Jack Whitten, studio notes
Jack Whitten's Queens studio