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Whitfield Lovell
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Exhibition Schedule:
The Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL: Feb. 11–May 21, 2023 Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock, AR: Oct. 23, 2023–Jan. 14, 2024 Traveling in 2024 to: Cincinnati Art Museum (March), The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC (June), McNay Art Museum, San Antonio (October)
PASSAGES
EDITED BY MICHELE WIJE, ESSAYS BY CHERYL FINLEY AND BRIDGET COOKS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF ARTS
The most comprehensive survey to date of the contemporary artist Whiteld Lovell, whose poetic and intricately crafted tableaux and installations document and pay tribute to the history and cultural memory of the African American experience.
Whiteld Lovell: Passages accompanies a major traveling exhibition of the artist’s powerful Conté crayon drawings combined with objects to create assemblages and multisensory installations that focus on aspects of Black history, raising questions about identity, memory, and America’s collective heritage. Whiteld Lovell (b. 1959, Bronx), a 2007 MacArthur Foundation fellowship recipient and conceptual artist, creates exquisite drawings inspired by his own collection of vintage photographs of unidentied African Americans taken between the Emancipation Proclamation and the civil rights movement. He pairs his drawings done on paper or salvaged wooden boards with found objects, creating enigmatic assemblages and stand-alone tableaux that are rich with symbolism and ambiguity and evoke personal memories, ancestral connections, and the American past.
This richly illustrated volume features essays by leading scholars that contextualize Lovell’s work through the exploration of compelling elements such as sound and card playing, contemplating memory as method.
Michèle Wije is curator at the American Federation of Arts. Bridget Cooks is associate professor in the Departments of African American Studies and Art History, University of California, Irvine. Cheryl Finley is inaugural director of the Atlanta University Center Art History and Curatorial Studies Collective; a distinguished visiting professor at Spelman College; and associate professor of art history at Cornell University.
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176 pages, 9¼ x 11½" 160 color illustrations Hardcover • 9780847872992 $50.00 USD, $67.50 CAD, £38.95 GBP February 7, 2023 Rights: World
