Jack Whitten (A'64) on the cover of Artforum

February 01, 2012

Alumnus and former faculty Jack Whitten's painting Pink Psyche Queen (1973) appears on the cover of Artforum's February 2012 edition.

The journal features a portfolio of works by Whitten (A'64) introduced by Editor-in-Chief Michelle Kuo. Whitten, a widely exhibited and collected artist has since the 1960s explored painterly abstraction with a range of formal techniques to address diverse subject matter. See more work by the artist at Alexander Gray Associates.

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