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Stanley Whitney: Return to the Garden

Stanley Whitney, The Courage of the Poet, 2025.

Until Jan 17, 2026
22, Anapiron Polemou Street, Athina 115 21, Greece

“I don’t have a title and then make a painting, I make a painting and then I try to figure out what it is.” Stanley Whitney likes to live in the unknown. That limbo between simple and complex is where his art lives. He believes the strength and boldness of color burns brighter when framed in loose grids. Whitney’s creations—unique in their brushwork, pigment layering, and shaky borders—are on view in “Return to the Garden,” his first exhibition in Greece for almost a decade. The show invokes Arcadian innocence and the harmony of nature. —Henry McGrath