Pain and promise are embodied in one of the most beautiful and sobering artworks in Hauser & Wirth’s exhibition of late artist Jack Whitten’s paintings from the ‘90s. A tribute to the children killed in the 1995 mass shooting, ‘Mask III: For the Children of Dunblane, Scotland’ memorializes lost lives in a blaze of color created with chips of acrylic paint fashioned together in Whitten’s signature collage-like technique. Honoring the dead and acting as witness, Whitten galvanizes his audience to resist what’s wrong and unify for higher purpose. (On view through Jan 23rd).
