Whitney is now the subject of an extensive retrospective at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York, where several rooms devoted to these grids are the grand finale of this fabulous exhibition. The show, curated by Cathleen Chaffee, convincingly demonstrates that this 77-year-old painter is more than just his grids, which have become his calling card since he began making them more than 20 years ago.

The show demonstrates that Whitney has continually reworked motifs, as a composer develops a theme over the movements of a symphony. His grids have their origins in an earlier work composed of aligned circles. Those circles, in turn, became misaligned and loose in a series of earlier squares. And before the circles, there were even less definable shapes.

February 9, 2024–May 26, 2024

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