STANLEY WHITNEY: WORKS ON PAPER

Cayon Gallery is pleased to announce a new exhibition by Stanley Whitney (Philadelphia, USA, 1946) at our Madrid location, at Blanca de Navarra 7.

September 11 – October 31, 2025

Following his presence last summer at our Menorca space, we are pleased to announce a new exhibition of Stanley Whitney (Philadelphia, USA, 1946) at our Madrid venue on Blanca de Navarra 7. This marks the artist’s second project in Madrid, after This Array of Colors (2019), where—following a much larger version at the Menorca gallery—a painting by Whitney was presented alongside Yves Klein’s Pure Pigment (Nice, France, 1928 – Paris, France, 1962).

Stanley Whitney: Works on Paper, 2021–2025 offers a survey of the artist’s practice on paper. Through a substantial selection of works in diverse techniques and formats, all created over the past five years, the exhibition underscores the vitality of Whitney’s current production and reaffirms his standing as one of the foremost draftsmen of his time.

This multiplicity of formats and working materials allows us to draw connections to other masters of drawing, ranging from Van Gogh—of whom Whitney has said, “When I saw Van Gogh’s pencil drawings, and his black and white pen and ink drawings, I thought they had so much color. I like the challenge of taking a pencil and trying to make something as rhythmic and colorful as an oil painting or a watercolor just using a line or a mark”—to another great watercolorist such as Emil Nolde. At the same time, it underscores the need to regard Whitney’s works on paper with the highest esteem: they are by no means secondary or dependent upon his paintings, but rather the opposite.