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Uncovering Jack Whitten’s Mysterious Abstractions
2025

I composed the score for Uncovering Jack Whitten’s Mysterious Abstractions.

This short documentary offers a rare glimpse into Whitten’s groundbreaking techniques and creative process. We visit Whitten’s studio in New York, a former firehouse turned “laboratory for acrylic paint,” which remains largely untouched since his death in 2018. There, his daughter and wife explain how the collection of historical images and objects he surrounded himself with gives us a view “inside his brain” and relates to his experiences growing up in the segregated South during the Civil Rights movement. As MoMA curator Michelle Kuo describes, “Whitten transformed righteous anger into a kind of dazzling beauty.”