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Stanley Whitney

Inspired by Egyptian pyramids and Roman architecture, Stanley Whitney’s paintings are irregular grids of precariously stacked blocks of color, hemmed in by confident strokes along the perimeter of his square canvases. He juxtaposes these individual blocks of color, creating relationships between meeting edges and pressurizing the space between each shape. While his works range in size, from just a few inches to eight square feet, Whitney consistently strives to find a balance between density and open space.

Born 1946
Hometown Philadelphia, PA
Lives and Works New York, NY
Education
MFA, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1972
BFA, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MI, 1969
Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH, 1966
Permanent Collection

Architettura Arte Moderna, Modena, Italy
Magazzino d’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Palazzo Magnani, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

Representing Galleries

Lisson Gallery, New York, NY

SHOWS

Lisson Gallery

London
May 20 2016 - Jul 02 2016

Radical Times

Galerie Derouillon

Paris
May 19 2016 - Jun 25 2016

BISOU MAGIQUE
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