Sentences with phrase «black monoliths series»

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

In recent years, Whitten's best known body of work has been the ongoing Black Monoliths series, begun in the 90s, which uses acrylic and mixed medium to create mosaics of black artists, writers, and political thinkers such as Jacob Lawrence and Malcolm X.

His subjects for the Black Monolith series include W.E.B. Du Bois, Muhammad Ali, and Maya Angelou, among others.

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.

For over four decades, Whitten utilized the tesserae to develop his Black Monolith series.

IN ADDITION TO SHOWCASING HIS SCULPTURES, «Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture, 1963 - 2016» will unite for the first time the artist's celebrated Black Monolith series, works that pay tribute to black cultural figures such as W.E.B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, John Coltrane, Ralph Ellison, and fellow artist Jacob Lawrence.

Meanwhile, one of his most recognized bodies of work is his Black Monolith series, which honors friends and pivotal figures with whom he shares an intellectual connection, such as Lawrence, W.E.B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, Barbara Jordan and Amiri Baraka.

The tribute to Berry is part of his Black Monolith series memorializing important African American figures such as James Baldwin, Barbara Jordan, and Muhammad Ali.

Not exact matches

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.

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.»

For over four decades, Whitten utilized the tesserae to develop his Black Monoliths, a series of abstracted tributes to Black artists, musicians, and public figures such as Ralph Ellison, Chuck Berry, and W.E.B. Du Bois.

His Black Monoliths, a series of abstracted tributes, memorialize important Black figures such as James Baldwin and Barbara Jordan.

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