Stanley Whitney : how high the moon. / curated by Cathleen Chaffee

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whitney, Stanley, 1946- artist.

Contributor:

Chaffee, Cathleen, curator, writer of added commentary.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Whitney, Stanley, 1946---Exhibitions.

Whitney, Stanley.

Whitney, Stanley, 1946---Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc--Exhibitions.

African American artists--Exhibitions.

African American artists.

Installations (Art)--Exhibitions.

Installations (Art).

Whitney, Stanley, 1946-.

Genre:

exhibition catalogs.

notebooks.

Exhibition catalogs

Exhibition catalogs.

Notebooks.

Physical Description:

295 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), photographs (chiefly color) : 29 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Buffalo, NY : Buffalo AKG Art Museum / New York, NY : DelMonico Books, 2024

Summary:

To accompany the exhibition, the Buffalo AKG and DelMonico Books will publish the most comprehensive catalogue yet dedicated to Stanley Whitney's pioneering fifty-year career. The book's essays contextualize Whitney's best-known gridded paintings from the past two decades alongside an historical assessment of his practice; the interconnected development of his works on paper; Whitney's relationship with the written word; and the influences on his practice from art history, poetry, music, quilting, and more. The catalogue features new essays by exhibition curator Chaffee and host curators Ruth Erickson, Barbara Lee Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA) and Pavel S. Pyś, Curator of Visual Arts at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. It also features texts by Kim Conaty, Steven and Ann Ames Curator of Drawings and Prints at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Norma Cole, a poet, painter, and translator; and Duro Olowu, a London-based fashion designer and curator. These exciting examinations of and reflections on the arc of Whitney's career are presented alongside full-color reproductions of the works featured in the retrospective, a robust bibliography, an exhibition history, an illustrated chronology, and an extensive interview with the artist by Grégoire Lubineau and conversation between Cole and Whitney. -- from exhibition website

Contents:

Norma Cole

Stay Songs, 2000 / Janne Sirén

Director's Foreword / Cathleen Chaffee

Stanley Whitney : Invention and Variation / Paintings 1972-2019 / Ruth Erickson

Stanley Whitney : Color Is Freedom / Kim Conaty

"The Lucid Stuff" / Drawings and Prints 1978-2022 / Pavel S. Pyś

Private Thoughts : On Language in Stanley Whitney's Practice / Sketchbooks 1987-2020 / Stanley Whitney Interviewed by Grégoire Lubineau, 2018 / Stanley Whitney and Norma Cole

When You Paint (From an Email Thread) / Duro Olowu

A Harmonious Dance / Small Paintings 2001-2020 / Cathleen Chaffee and Anne Patsch

Chronology / Exhibition History compiled by Anne Patsch and Melissa Fanton / Bibliography compiled by Anne Patsch / Checklist of the exhibition / Acknowledgments / Contributors / Photo credits.

Notes:

Catalog of an exhibition organized at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum by Charles Balbach Chief Curator Cathleen Chaffee, February 9-May 26, 2024

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

1636811043

9781636811048

OCLC:

1412156761