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Mac Whitney's work has been collected by a host of museums, including the Dallas Museum of Art. For his February 2011 show at KHFA, Hopper said, "Some of Whitney's pieces are massive in scale. In fact, we're having them brought in with a crane. The largest will be displayed in the open air courtyard."

Mac Whitney

About his own work, Whitney says, "Starting in 1969, most of my career has been spent working in the Dallas Area. I have worked and shown in Berlin, and have shown large-scale sculpture at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C. I constructed a fifty-foot-tall sculpture for the City of Houston and, over the years, have constructed a number of large-scale sculptures that are in the Dallas area and California. The Dallas Museum of Art has one in its permanent collection, and another is on loan to the Nasher.

"In this show, there is a sample of the acrylic sculptures which were cast between 1973 and 1980; these demonstrate the use of opaque color in a clear environment. The stainless steel wall reliefs are from 1987-1990. These welded constructions were made from plasma cut, stainless plate.

"In my oil painting, there is a back and forth between the painting and the sculpture. They inform each other. My painting is about fragmented or deconstructed sculpture.

"In the last few years, I have been using links to make sculpture. The links are made of steel, stainless steel, or bronze. When put together, these links make a chain which can become large; some are forty feet tall, and some are kinetic."