Contributor(s): Artist: Stanley Whitney A longstanding and beloved icon of contemporary painting in New York, Stanley Whitney (born 1946) has been exploring the formal possibilities of color within ever-shifting grids of multihued blocks and all-over fields of gestural marks and passages, since the mid-1970s.
Whitney's works on paper and preparatory sketchbooks are a critical component of his practice, in which he develops his spatial structure and experiments with the placement of color.
Whitney has noted: For me, drawing is a way to understand where things are in space.
I felt that I needed to work on space because I didn't want my color to be decorative.
I wanted color to have real intellect.
Sketchbook is a precise facsimile of one of the artist's Moleskine notebooks, featuring his notes, sketches and color investigations for recent paintings.
| Contributor(s) | Artiststanley |
|---|---|
| Whitney has noted | For me drawing is a way to understand where things are in space |
Lisson Gallery Stanley whitney: sketchbook, paperback/stanley whitney
