Sentences with phrase «black monolith paintings»

The ticketed exhibition includes 40 works inspired by the materials and traditions of Africa and ancient Greece, plus Whitten's Black Monolith paintings honoring prominent African Americans such as Muhammad Ali, Maya Angelou, and James Baldwin.

I have just completed another in my series of Black Monolith paintings, this one honors the rock n» roll master, Chuck Berry.

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Jack Whitten's first exhibition with Hauser & Wirth presents works from several series — «Quantum Walls», «Portals», lenticular works from the «Third Entity», one piece from the continuing Black Monolith Project, and a sculpture (all dated 2015 — 17)-- continuing a five - decade - long investigation of passions vis - à - vis a testing exploration of painting itself.

Odyssey is accompanied by a full - color catalogue that features the sculptures made by Whitten over the past 50 years, as well as the Black Monolith series of paintings, and archival photographs.

The mosaic - tile painting is part of Whitten's series of Black Monolith works paying tribute to African American visionaries — intellectuals, jazz musicians, and visual artists.

A well know series of work is called «Black Monoliths» which are «mosaic paintings.»

Also included in the show, which travels to the Metropolitan Museum of Art later this year, are works from Whitten's «Black Monoliths» paintings series, which pay homage to Ralph Ellison, W. E. B. DuBois, and others through abstract portraits.

This painting, part of Whitten's «Black Monolith» series, honors Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man, a book that parallels a story of a young black man's search for identity with «the struggle of the nation to define itself in the tumultuous years of the early Civil Rights Movement.&rBlack Monolith» series, honors Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man, a book that parallels a story of a young black man's search for identity with «the struggle of the nation to define itself in the tumultuous years of the early Civil Rights Movement.&rblack man's search for identity with «the struggle of the nation to define itself in the tumultuous years of the early Civil Rights Movement.»

As the full title of Black Monolith V suggests, at the end of five decades, Whitten's memorial paintings have come full circle.

In an adjoining space, Naama Tsabar installed Closer, a white monolith with an embedded microphone and cello that is played by reaching one's arm inside of the wall cavity, and the black and bordeaux variations of her Robert Morris-esque felt / carbon paintings, which are fitted with guitar strings (and hooked to amps).

The exhibition also unites Whitten's Black Monoliths series for the first time to reveal how sculpture influenced his paintings.

The artist's ongoing «Black Monolith» project dedicated to memorializing black artists, writers, thinkers, and poets, is represented by Black Monolith X, Birth of Mohammad Ali (2016), another large - scale painting that features two irregular shapes which appear both pooled across the surface and, from a distance, unmoored froBlack Monolith» project dedicated to memorializing black artists, writers, thinkers, and poets, is represented by Black Monolith X, Birth of Mohammad Ali (2016), another large - scale painting that features two irregular shapes which appear both pooled across the surface and, from a distance, unmoored froblack artists, writers, thinkers, and poets, is represented by Black Monolith X, Birth of Mohammad Ali (2016), another large - scale painting that features two irregular shapes which appear both pooled across the surface and, from a distance, unmoored froBlack Monolith X, Birth of Mohammad Ali (2016), another large - scale painting that features two irregular shapes which appear both pooled across the surface and, from a distance, unmoored from it.