"The most comprehensive survey to date of the contemporary artist Whitfield Lovell, whose poetic and intricately crafted tableaux and installations document and pay tribute to the history and cultural memory of the African American experience. Whitfield 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. Whitfield 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 unidentified African Americans taken between the Emancipation Proclamation and the civil rights movement. He pairs his meticulously rendered 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 collective 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."-- Provided by publisher
Notes
"This catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibition organized by the American Federation of Arts in collaboration with Whitfield Lovell. Exhibition Itinerary, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL, February 11-May 21, 2023, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, June 17-September 10, 2023, Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock, AR, October 13, 2023-January 14, 2024, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinatti, OH, March 1-May 26, 2024, The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC, June 29-September 22, 2024, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX, from October 26, 2024-January 19, 2025"--Colophon.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (page 165).
Contents
Foreword / Pauline Forlenza
Preface / Michèle Wije
Whitfield Lovell: Memory as method / Cheryl Finley
The hand you're dealt / Bridget R. Cooks
Prologue: Works on paper
Visitation: The Richmond Project
Tableaux
The Card Pieces
Kin series
Deep River
The Reds
About the artist
Selected bibliography
Selected public collections
List of illustrations
Artist acknowledgments
Contributors
Photography credits
Other title(s)
Passages
ISBN
9780847872992 (hardback)
0847872998 (hardcover)
OCLC
1368277829
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