If Cameron Whitten had his way, the Occupy movement would look to Green Party staple Ralph Nader for inspiration and ideas. Whitten, a Portland mayoral candidate and Occupy Portland participant ...

“Black Monolith II (For Ralph Ellison),” 1994, remains one of Whitten’s most celebrated pieces, with good reason. The artist centered a silhouette, thick around the neck, built out of ...

In his Black Monolith series of abstract portraits of major cultural figures such as James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison and Jacob Lawrence, Whitten returned to the ghostly dreams of his first years in ...