Robert Whitman|1935-2024

1990 Bio

 

Born in 1935 in Manhattan, Robert Whitman was a literature major at Rutgers University in the mid-1950s when he first became involved in a small artistic circle that included, among others, George Brecht, George Segal and Allan Kaprow (inventor of the term "Happenings.") Against a backdrop of Abstract Expressionism's challenge to narrative painting (and Kaprow's pronouncement that painting had ended with Jackson Pollock), Whitman and others began experimenting with real-time collages of objects and actions in new, unexpected environments and contexts.

 

In 1960, Whitman performed his first piece, Small Cannon, and since then has produced more than two dozen works in a wide variety of settings and media. His two latest full-length performance works, Northern Dark (1987) and Fast Cloud (1989), were produced by the Moderna Museet in Stockholm.

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Robert Whitman died on January 19, 2024. For further and more recent information about him, go to his obituary and 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Whitman and

https://www.pacegallery.com/artists/robert-whitman/