JACK WHITE
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As an artist, Jack White was an abstract artistic innovator. His career spans over forty years. Although he was widely exhibited as a sculptor, his experimentation in plaster, paint and the traditional medium of fresco has also afforded him the signature label of painter. His themes were concerned with are universal: spirit, energy, matter, physics, and sacred geometry. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Modern Art, NYC. The Snug Harbor Museum, The Everson Museum of art, and The San Francisco Museum of Art.
He was born in New York City and died in Harlem, New York in 2017.
Solo Exhibitions
2016, | Peg Alston Fine Arts, New York City |
2002 & 01 | "Recent Works" |
2009 | Renaissance Fine Art, Inc., New York City, |
"Dark Matters and Entropy" | |
2002 | Sumei Multidisciplinary Arts Center, Newark, NJ |
"Retrospective 1994 to 2001" | |
1997 | Wilmer Jennings Gallery, New York City |
"Cosmogenesis" | |
1996 | Wilmer Jennings Gallery, New York City |
"Intimations" |
Group Exhibition
2016-14 | Burgess Fine Arts, New York, NY |
"Dark`s Other Matters Revisited" | |
2010 | Renaissance Fine Art, Inc., New York City |
"In the House",Artists Represented by RFA | |
2004 | Wilmer Jennings Gallery, New York City |
"Rhythm of Structure: The Mathematical Aesthetic" | |
2002 | Peg Alston Fine Arts, New York City |
"Group Show 2002" | |
2001 | PCOG Gallery, New York City |
"Triple A, African and African American Artist" | |
2000 | Rush Arts Gallery, New York City |
"Micro Cosmic/Macro Cosmic" | |
Two Man Show with Barry Charles Johnson | 1998 | O.K. Harris Gallery, New York City |
"The Fanelli Show" | |
1997 | Judith Klein Gallery, New York City |
"Celebration!" | |
1997 | Chet Kearn Moveable Feast Gallery, New York City |
1997 | Northern Westchester Center for the Arts, |
Mount Kisco, NY | |
"Art from the African Diaspora" | |
1996 | Skylight Gallery at Restoration Plaza, Brooklyn, NY |
"Theosophy N Art" | |
1996 | Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City |
"Kindred Spirits" | |
1994 | Gallery at Hastings-on-Hudson, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY |
"In Search of the Spirit" | |
1991 | Sharon Arts Center, Sharon, NH |
"The Figurative Spirit" | |
1990 | English Gallery, Peterborough, NH |
1981 | Thorne Sagendorph Art Gallery, Keene, NH |
"Sculpture New Hampshire" | |
1978 | Snug Harbor Museum, Staten Island, NY |
"Artists by the Sea" | |
1978 | Cinque Gallery, New York City |
"A Selection of African-American Sculpture" | |
1972 | Ivan Spence Gallery, Ibiza, Spain |
"Island Artists" | |
1970 | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
"Afro-American Artists": New York and Boston | |
1969 | "30 Contemporary Afro-American Artists" |
-70 | Traveling Show |
The Minneapolis Institute of Art | High Museum of Art |
Flint Institute of Art | |
Everson Museum of Art | |
San Francisco Museum of Art | |
1969 | Lee Nordness Galleries, New York City |
"Twelve Afro-American Artists" | |
1968 | Museum of Modern Art, New York City |
"Martin Luther King Memorial Show" | |
1968 | American Greetings Cards Gallery, New York City |
"Fifteen New Voices: Fifteen New York Artist" |
Collections
Chase Manhattan Carver Federal Savings Bank, New York | |
Hatch-Billops Collection, New York | |
Kenkeleba House, New York | |
Metro Media, New York | |
Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ | |
Queens College of CUNY, Flushing, NY | |
Snug Harbor Museum, Staten Island, NY |
Commissions
Award Sculpture | |
Malik Yoba Fatherhood Project, N Y, 2002 | |
Sony Innovators Award | |
Sculpture for the Sony Corporation, Park Ridge, NJ 1992 |
Indoor Sculpture | |
Mr. and Mrs. Cheney, Cambridge MA 1982 | |
Outdoor Sculpture, I.S. 206 Bronx | |
Board of Education, New York 1978 |
Awards
Fellowship | |
MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH 1967 |
Allan B. Tucker Memorial Scholarship | |
Art Students League, New York 1964 |
Catalogues
David C Driskell Center at the University of Maryland | |
"Tradition Redefined: The Larry and Brenda Thompson Collection of African American Art" 2009 |
David C Driskell Center at the University of Maryland | |
"Holding Our Own, Selections from | |
the Collectors Club of Washington, D. C., Inc." 2006 |
Sumei Multidisciplinary Arts Center, Newark, NJ | |
"Jack H White Retrospective " 2002 |
Skylight Gallery at Restoration Plaza, Brooklyn, N.Y. | |
"Theosophy N Art" 1996 |
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass. | |
"Afro- American Artistst" New York and Boston 1970 |
Education
Art Student’s League | |
New York, 1963-66 |
Cartooner’s and Illustrator’s School(The School of Visual Arts) | |
NYC, 1956-57 |
Bibliography
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Wright, Cherilyn, "Liv", "A Visual Explosion In Harlem", International Review of African American Art, Hampton, VA, Volume 18 # 4, 2004
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