Gagosian Gallery Now Represents Artist Stanley Whitney – RisePEI

Gagosian, the world’s largest gallery, now represents New York–based mostly artist Stanley Whitney. He could have his first exhibition with the gallery at its Grosvenor Hill area in London subsequent 12 months.

In becoming a member of Gagosian, Whitney will go away Lisson Gallery, which has represented the artist since 2015.

For many years, Whitney has made abstractions composed of rectangles of various sizes in vibrant, saturated colours—oranges, yellows, blues, greens, reds—which can be usually organized in sq. grids. Many current works are achieved at a big scale, at 6-feet or 8-feet-square.

In a 2017 interview with ARTnews forward of his inclusion in that 12 months’s Documenta 14, Whitney described his strategy to his process-based follow: “The colour makes the construction. I wished a system that allowed me to put shade down once I felt prefer it—I wished nothing to get in my method. After I begin these work I do not know what it’s going to be. I don’t begin with a sketch or an thought. I begin by laying as a lot shade down as I presumably can.”

His wide-ranging influences embody early Minimalism and Colour Discipline portray, historic Roman and Renaissance structure, Previous Masters like Titian and Velázquez, and jazz, which he usually listens to whereas portray.

In describing the affect of jazz on his artwork, Whitney has stated he admires “the best way that it’s slightly offbeat, polyrhythmic; the best way that issues transfer. Nothing’s straight. Nothing’s common. All the things’s slightly crooked.”

Although he had been making artwork in an summary mode because the mid-Seventies, it was his 2015 survey on the Studio Museum in Harlem, organized by Lauren Haynes, that introduced him wider consideration and acclaim. Throughout the present’s run, Lisson introduced it could start representing him, giving him a present in Milan later that 12 months.

Whitney had a solo present in 2020 at Gagosian’s Rome area. The situation of that exhibition was notably necessary to Whitney’s personal historical past as an artist, because it was in Rome, the place he lived for 5 years within the ’90s, that he started to work within the gridded abstraction type that he’s now finest identified for.

His work is now held within the collections of the the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork, the Whitney Museum, the Guggenheim Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Artwork, the Excessive Museum in Atlanta, and the Nationwide Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, amongst many others. In 2011, he received the Robert De Niro Sr. Prize, which annually goes to a mid-career American artist and comes with a $25,000 purse.

His artwork is at present on view in a collateral exhibition to this 12 months’s Venice Biennale, on the Palazzo Tiepolo Passi. Titled “The Italian Work,” the present brings collectively work from throughout three a long time made in Italy and his organized by the Buffalo AKG Artwork Museum (previously the Albright-Knox Artwork Gallery), which is able to mount a significant displaying of Whitney’s in 2024.

Moreover, Whitney additionally not too long ago accomplished a sequence of stained-glass home windows for the Baltimore Museum of Artwork’s Heart for Matisse Research; an accompanying exhibition displaying preparatory drawings for the home windows with works on paper by Matisse will open on the BMA in November.