Jack Whitten

For his first exhibition with Hauser & Wirth, American artist Jack Whitten will present new paintings from the series Spatial Dialogues, Quantum Walls, and Portals, as well as new works on paper. Also included in the exhibition will be a work from his Black Monolith series, an ongoing project honoring African American visionaries, many of whom the artist has known personally. Whitten holds a unique place in the narrative of postwar American art: over the course of a five-decade career he has constructed a bridge between gestural abstraction and process art, experimenting ceaselessly to arrive at a nuanced language of painting that hovers between automation and deep personal expression.