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.
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 fro
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 fro
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 fro
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 from it.