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#NYBattleGround by #JackWhitten, 1967. At the #MuseumOfModernArt, #MoMA in #NewYorkCity #Art
April 12, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Jack Whitten, Kappa I, 1976
January 24, 2025 at 10:14 PM
ai2al.bsky.social
#MonksKimono (for T S M). In large #JackWhitten exhibit currently at #MoMA, #TheMessenger. #NewYorkCity #Art #MusicSky
April 12, 2025 at 8:18 PM
michealpmclaughlin.bsky.social
MoMA Sunday
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MoMA on Sunday at the Jack Whitten exhibit
July 27, 2025 at 8:57 PM
timmcfarlanestudio.bsky.social
#jackwhitten #art21 #contemporaryart #painting #mixedmedia
Jack Whitten: An Artist's Life | Art21 "Extended Play"
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January 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Jack Whitten Exhibit at the MoMA

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April 13, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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#Art: Self Portrait: Entrainment (2008)
#Artist: #JackWhitten (b. 1939/d. 2018)
#ArtMovement/Style: #Abstract #Tesserae #SculpturalPainting
Mediun: Acrylic collage and eye glass lens on canvas
74 x 58.4 x 4.4 cm (29 1/8 x 23 x 1 3/4 inches)

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#Art: Self Portrait: Entrainment (2008) #Artist: Jack Whitten
March 30, 2026 at 12:26 PM
lukashafner.bsky.social
When you still see microbial populations and communities everywhere after a week at the #GRCMicroPop

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July 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
sgjfineart.bsky.social
Always a revelation and forever a legend #jackwhitten @themuseumofmodernart #painting #sculpture #innovation #exploration #nyartadvisor #the_apaa @the_apaa
June 12, 2025 at 6:21 PM
nathanfrancis79.bsky.social
🎨 #JackWhitten, American abstract painter, was #BOTD 5 December 1939. #Art #Painting
December 5, 2025 at 1:44 AM
briandupont.bsky.social
#JackWhitten “Testing (Slab)”, 1972. The striations are leveled out in favor of a palpable mass of paint, as if he’s showing color as material in its truest form.

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Acrylic on canvas, 70.75” x 95.25”. Detail, proper right edge.
April 27, 2025 at 12:51 PM
grnstudio.bsky.social
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Whitten experimented with materials. Some made with powdered toner and others with powdered graphite. “Taking a risk” was a subtitle in the exhibition.
Small black and grey artwork by Jack Whitten currently showing at MoMA (museum of modern art), in New York City.
April 1, 2025 at 4:34 PM
worldofartbysue.bsky.social
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Art is the great communicator, and MoMA's current show, Jack Whitten:The Messenger, contains so many great messages. Painting on the left is "Dead Reckoning", 1980. See if before the show ends at MoMA on August 2nd.
The exhibition space at MoMA for the blockbuster show Jack Whitten: The Messenger.
July 16, 2025 at 12:48 AM
nathanfrancis79.bsky.social
🎨 #JackWhitten, American abstract painter, was #BOTD 5 December 1939. #Art #Painting
December 5, 2024 at 1:48 AM
robophone.bsky.social
An amazing Jack Whitten exhibit at Moma in Manhattan. His work was extensive and heavily influenced by jazz & civil rights. Enjoy! #JackWhitten #Moma #jazz #civilrights #racism #nyc
April 9, 2025 at 4:25 PM
briandupont.bsky.social
My favorite #painting s at MoMA’s #JackWhitten retrospective. Each represents an engagement with extremes of color: pink is an exceptionally difficult color to use, & here contrasting against the limit of pure black & white.

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Pink Psyche Queen 1973 Acrylic on canvas 71 × 60" Pink Psyche Queen 1973 Acrylic on canvas 71 × 60" Detail, proper left edge, showing the clean margin of exposed, raw canvas Gamma Group I 1975 Acrylic on canvas 83 3/4 × 72" Gamma Group I 1975 Acrylic on canvas 83 3/4 × 72" Detail, proper right edge.
May 3, 2025 at 1:03 PM
briandupont.bsky.social
#JackWhitten at the Museum of Modern Art. Amazing #painting combing material density and ethereal color. Personal gesture is absorbed in the mechanical process of pulling his “developer” across the canvas…

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Tripping 1971 Acrylic on canvas Tripping 1971 Acrylic on canvas Detail, proper left edge Golden Spaces 1971 Acrylic on canvas Golden Spaces 1971 Acrylic on canvas Detail, proper left edge
April 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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How a civil rights activist created a new form of abstraction in art-- READ THE PREVIEW
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MoMA Presents "Jack Whitten: The Messenger" — Preview
WHEN: March 23 - August 2, 2025 For more information visit the MoMA website. WHERE: The Museum of Modern Art 11 West 53 Street New York, NY
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March 13, 2025 at 2:46 PM
foodlabdetroit.bsky.social
My God! That’s all I can say right now. Yesterday, I stood inside a gallery & time collapsed. Memory collapsed. The veil between the living & the gone felt tissue-thin. I thought I came to MoMA for an exhibition #JackWhitten #TheMessenger. What I found was something I didn’t know I needed: a portal.
March 24, 2025 at 12:16 PM
marisaartista.bsky.social
Incredible retrospective of Jack Whitten at MoMA going on right now. Hard to capture the beauty of some these in person. #moma #jackwhitten #nyc #art #painting
Large scale piece dedicated to 9/11 by Jack Whitten. Large abstract mixed media piece with a dark black triangle in the middle and various pointed objects coming off of it. A textured mix of black, tan and greens and collage of textures like tires & other rubber objects Black painting with blue circles and yellow lines emanating from it. Jack Whitten’s piece called Stevie’s Maze. Beautiful abstract with yellows, oranges scraped in a pattern that looks like a music visualizer One of several paintings dedicated to prominent Black figure in culture. Abstract black and white broad strokes with a mosaic in a circle of blues, red, greens. All cut up acrylic.
April 10, 2025 at 11:53 AM
gastropoda.bsky.social
#JackWhitten show at #moma beyond phenomenal. Rage made into awesome art.
July 15, 2025 at 1:22 AM
cothrel.bsky.social
My latest in #Newcity is about that amaaaazing #JackWhitten show at #MoMA.
Review: “Jack Whitten: The Messenger” at MoMA, New York
It’s an unforgettable exhibition, and one we’re not likely to see again.
art.newcity.com
April 28, 2025 at 6:42 PM
worldofartbysue.bsky.social
January's theme: Sculpture
JACK WHITTEN (1939 - 2018), “The Afro American Thunderbolt”, 1983-84. Estate of Jack Whitten.
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(Detail) Whitten was well-known and respected for his abstract panels that honored figures from African-American history and for his innovative use of handmade acrylic tesserae in the construction of his paintings. But the art world was stunned when it learned in 2017 that Whitten had also been making sculptures privately for over four decades. The sculptures were a highly personal endeavor undertaken during the artist’s summers in Crete with family and were not made to be sold or exhibited. Whitten stated: “The sculptures are the main influence on the painting.” Intellectually curious throughout his entire life, Whitten studied African sculptural practices and blended his findings with the Minoan and Cycladic forms found in Greece and Crete. “The Afro American Thunderbolt” melds his own history as an African-American with his adopted history of ancient Greece (his wife is of Greek heritage): it brings to mind the powerful Zeus hurling a thunderbolt while simultaneously referencing West African Kongo power figures (“nkisi”) in which metal objects are embedded into wooden forms for healing and protective purposes “The Afro American Thunderbolt” is carved from black mulberry wood (locally sourced in Crete) with copper plates attached on the ends and metal nails and objects inserted into sections of the wood. In the nkisi, the metal pieces are embedded to remember specific historical events or rites so that the power figure becomes an historical record of sorts (with the actual history perhaps known only to the craftsman). Whitten’s sculpture is set upon two tall metal bars that appear as legs – a reference, perhaps, to the Greek Zeus of Artemision statue from 460 BCE (in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens) that we looked at here in the beginning of January. The compte sculpture, including "legs".
January 26, 2026 at 5:16 PM