Artist Highlight: Stanley Whitney

Stanley Whitney was born in 1946 in Philadelphia and currently lives and works in New York and Solignano, Italy. His works have been featured in numerous international exhibitions since the early seventies. His work was part the 50th Venice Biennale (2003) in the project Utopia Station, and was also shown in the Dakar Biennal (2004). He is the recipient the John Guggenheim Fellowship (1996) and Pollock-Krasner Fellowship (2002) as well as winning the First Robert De Niro Sr. Prize in Painting (2011). 

- See more at: http://www.studiomuseum.org/event-calendar/event/the-artists-voice-2015-03-26#sthash.hkwzAxM8.dpuf

In this Lil Studio participants were to be inspired by Stanley Whitney's painting http://www.studiomuseum.org/event-calendar/event/lil-studio-2015-01-14

to create their own colorful abstraction. 

Supplies: 

-pre-cut construction paper in squares and rectangles (different sizes)

-one large piece of paper 

-glue

 Possible Vocabulary:

 abstract: expressing ideas and emotions by using elements such as colors and lines without attempting to create a realistic picture

Complementary colors: Colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel are considered to be complementary colors (example: red and green).

Link to playing with color:  http://paletton.com/#uid=1000u0kllllaFw0g0qFqFg0w0aF