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A Decade of Collecting, 2012–2022

Through December 21, 2023
Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
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X: A Decade of Collecting, 2012–2022 is a survey of artworks acquired for the Sheldon Museum of Art’s collection over the past decade. The chosen works demonstrate the breadth of collecting efforts and are a modest representation of the approximately 1,875 pieces that have entered the museum’s holdings since 2012. The exhibition seeks to present a snapshot of how the collection continues to evolve. Work by Richard Avedon, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Andy Warhol, and Stanley Whitney is included.

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Stanley Whitney

Opening Spring 2024
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York
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Conveying the breadth of Stanley Whitney’s practice from the early 1970s through today, this exhibition of artist’s paintings at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York (formerly the Albright-Knox Art Gallery), also includes a robust installation of drawings, prints, and sketchbooks. The retrospective contextualizes Whitney’s practice in relation to his artistic community as well as his influences—from the history of art and architecture to quilting, textiles, and jazz.

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Stanley Whitney
Dance with Me Henri

November 20, 2022–April 23, 2023
Baltimore Museum of Art
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This exhibition highlights Stanley Whitney’s recently commissioned stained-glass windows in the Ruth R. Marder Center for Matisse Studies. Whitney selected a group of works on paper by Henri Matisse, to show in dialogue with sketches for the windows and his own prints, unfolding the relationship between the two artists and their experiments with line and color.

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Stanley Whitney
The Italian Paintings

April 23–November 27, 2022
Palazzo Tiepolo Passi, Venice
www.labiennale.org

The Italian Paintings is a look at Stanley Whitney’s practice over the last three decades seen through an Italian lens. The title refers to a body of work that encompasses pivotal transitional paintings from the time Whitney spent in Rome in the early 1990s, through to the work created during subsequent summers in his studio in Parma. The presentation considers, for the first time, the important influence of Italian art and architecture on Whitney’s oeuvre. The exhibition is presented by the future Buffalo AKG Art Museum and is an official Collateral Event at the Biennale Arte 2022.

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Stanley Whitney in
Sensory Poetics: Collecting Abstraction

July 8–October 16, 2022
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
www.guggenheim.org

Sensory Poetics: Collecting Abstraction brings together highlights from the museum’s growing collection of contemporary art. Acquired over the past ten years, and shown at the museum for the first time, this selection of artworks reflects developments in painting, sculpture, and video from the 1960s to today that manifest in a turn toward gesture as a response to the constraint of Minimalism. Evident in the exhibited works is an appeal to the human hand, whether through the tactility of materials or the gestural marks that comprise the compositions. Work by Stanley Whitney is included.

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Panorama | Monopoli

September 1–4, 2022
Various locations in Monopoli, Italy
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Panorama brings together around seventy works from the fifteenth century to present day by sixty international artists. The exhibition takes place in twenty venues across the historic center of Monopoli, a medieval seaside town on the Adriatic coast of Puglia, including palaces, churches, piazzas, and votive shrines tucked away in alleyways and lanes. This is the second in a series of exhibitions, each with the title Panorama, organized by Italics, a consortium of Italian art galleries that work together, both on- and off-line, to highlight Italy’s extraordinary cultural and artistic heritage and introduce international audiences to some of the most fascinating places in the country. Work by Stanley Whitney is included, exhibited in the Palazzo Martinelli along with a seventeenth-century painting by Antonio Zanchi.

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Stanley Whitney in
Blue Is the Color of Your Eyes: On Materiality and Abstraction in the Moderna Museet Collection

February 2, 2019–March 1, 2020
Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden
www.modernamuseet.se

In Blue Is the Color of Your Eyes, works by Louise Bourgeois are presented alongside key paintings and sculptures from the 1940s to the present by international artists in the Moderna Museet’s collection. Guiding the viewer through an examination of issues of materiality and abstraction, the exhibition highlights a bodily approach to the creative process as well as social issues. Work by Stanley Whitney is included.

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Documenta 14

April 8–September 17, 2017
Various locations in Kassel, Germany, and Athens
www.documenta14.de

Sixteen paintings by Stanley Whitney were on display in Kassel, Germany, and in Athens as part of the fourteenth edition of Documenta, which takes place every five years. Documenta 14 included the presentation of works by more than 160 international artists, as well as concerts, screenings, readings, performances, and discussions.

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Focus
Stanley Whitney

January 21–April 2, 2017
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
www.themodern.org

This exhibition explores Stanley Whitney’s investigations into the intricate possibilities of color and form in the realm of abstract painting. Since the mid-1970s, Whitney has been known for his multicolored, irregular grids on square canvases. Taking the essentialist grid of Minimalism as his cue, his configurations are loose, uneven geometric lattices comprised of vibrant stacked color blocks that vary in hue, shape, and the handling of the paint.

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Stanley Whitney
Dance the Orange

July 16–October 25, 2015
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
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Stanley Whitney: Dance the Orange features paintings and drawings created between 2008 and 2015. Following time spent in Italy and Egypt in the 1990s, Whitney developed the distinctive approach to color and space for which he is now known. Whitney’s paintings are rhythmic and lyrical, made according to a dynamic fusion of preordained structure and improvisation, with vibrant, irregular lozenges of color stacked loosely in square formats. The drawings, with their spontaneous, energetic lines, give insight into the parallel importance of this more intimate activity to his art practice.