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Artistic interpretations of African-American cultural memory
The Art of Whitfield Lovell |
Artist Whitfield Lovell has received world-wide acclaim for his work, which combines on-site drawings with found objects and other components of personal metaphor, as well as broader themes of African-American ancestry and cultural memory. Using images from photographs of people from the 1920s and 1930s, Lovell evokes and honors an era. Lovell’s heavily layered narrative drawings exhibit a quality of timelessness and universality.
This catalog of Lovell’s exhibit at the University of North Texas includes the first retrospective of his works on paper, from 1990 to the present. Essays are by Lucy Lippard and Diana Block.
Lovell’s BFA is from the Cooper Union School of Art, and he has studied in Italy, France, and Spain. His works have been shown in the Bronx, Queens and Jersey City Museums, D. C. Moore Gallery, Greg Art Gallery, and Artists Space. His work has traveled in group exhibits to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and Project Row Houses in Houston, as well as to the Cuenca, Ecuador, and Havana, Cuba Bienales. The recipient of fellowship grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Awards in the Visual Arts and the Joan Mitchell, Penny McCall, and New York Foundations, Lovell lives in New York.
DIANA BLOCK, director of the University Art Gallery at the University of North Texas, lives in Denton. She previously edited Charles T. Williams Retrospective, with Friends.
The Art of Whitfield Lovell
ISBN 1-57741-075-X paper $29.95
LC 99-39459. 8 1/2x11. 50 color photos. Index.
Art. Multicultural Topics. Coffee Table/Gift Books
Publication Date: November 1999.
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