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John Whitehead"Cleopatra's Cobra" abstract geometric sculpture2022
2022
$19,000
£14,392.42
€16,604.84
CA$26,640.23
A$29,696.79
CHF 15,630.47
MX$360,008.13
NOK 199,005.25
SEK 185,026.69
DKK 123,935.06
About the Item
Mirror polished stainless steel and powder coated stainless steel.
A vertical composition of four octahedrons between a snaking arrangement of half-round tubes perfectly joined end to end. The purple powder-coated octahedrons with intersecting holes surround a cylindrical disc attached to a centered rod. The four cylindrical discs move/rotate as a unit when any of them are touched by hand.
John Whitehead was born in Demerara, Guyana. He came to the United States at age five and grew up in various inner-city neighborhoods on the west side of Oakland, California. Whitehead’s formal training in art began at Hoover Middle School in West Oakland, but he didn’t feel seriously challenged by his art classes there. At McClymonds High School in West Oakland, he was most fortunate to have Richard Davies as a dedicated and extraordinarily talented art teacher. Under his astute tutelage, John was exposed to a whole new approach to art, which emphasized geometric abstraction, constructivist art, and abstract expressionist sculpture.
Whitehead pursued his post-secondary education first at U,C, Berkeley, where he obtained his B.A. in economics with a minor in art, and then at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he received his M.A. in economics. During his professional career teaching university level economics and statistics, he continued to develop his keen interest in and passion for contemporary art, and more specifically sculpture. These were formative years for the artist.
From 2010 to 2020, Whitehead’s body of work mainly consisted of mirror-polished stainless steel and aluminum sculpture balancing varying geometric shapes, patterning curves, and negative spaces. The design, boundaries, and perceived movements of many of these pieces were influenced by David Smith’s “Cubi” series, Fletcher Benson’s “Folded-Circle” series, and George Rickey’s “Cluster of Cubes” sculpture, and other works in the abstract expressionist and constructivist traditions. As a result, these sculptures reflect a high level of geometric abstraction and often contain objects that are perched precariously atop each other, appearing to defy gravity and/or displaying a balance/imbalance dynamic.
Recently, Whitehead has been broadening his sculptural work to include the geometric aspects of his past works combined with a variety of contemporary African diasporic and cubist artistic paradigms. John Whitehead is one of only a few African American geometric abstract sculptors currently working in the U.S.
- Creator:John Whitehead (Guyanese, American)
- Creation Year:2022
- Dimensions:Height: 46 in (116.84 cm)Width: 13 in (33.02 cm)Depth: 13 in (33.02 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Glen Ellen, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU71214873742
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