The Modern Art Notes Podcast

This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Jack Whitten and was taped in front of a live audience at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. 

MCASD just opened the first Whitten retrospective. Titled “Jack Whitten: Five Decades of Painting,” and curated by MCASD’s Kathryn Kanjo, the exhibition features 60 canvases from the early 1960s through this year. The show reveals how, at a time when so many artists shrugged off painting, Whitten intensified his interest in the medium by marrying acrylic and canvas to conceptual strategies in an effort to address key issues in art and American society. After it closes in San Diego on January 4, 2015, it will travel to the Walker Art Center and the Wexner Center for the Arts. 

This is the second time Whitten has been on The MAN Podcast. Last year he talked with host Tyler Green on the occasion of an exhibition at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University. The image above is Whitten's Chinese Sincerity (1974) from MCASD’s own collection. It’s an example of the ‘squeegee’ paintings that Whitten made in the early 1970s using a tool he called his “developer” (second picture). Whitten pushed the 'developer’ across acrylic paint he had poured onto canvas. 

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