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Born 1959 Bronx, New York. Known for: Installation sculpture, charcoal portrait drawing.
East Village in New York-based artist, Whitfield Lovell, does mix-media installations that center on memory and history and evoke a harrowing tale of post-Reconstruction America. Inspired by the... Read full biography
East Village in New York-based artist, Whitfield Lovell, does mix-media installations that center on memory and history and evoke a harrowing tale of post-Reconstruction America. Inspired by the forced removal of a thriving African American community in 1921 because of fears about its proximity to... Read full biography
East Village in New York-based artist, Whitfield Lovell, does mix-media installations that center on memory and history and evoke a harrowing tale of post-Reconstruction America. Inspired by the forced removal of a thriving African American community in 1921 because of fears about its proximity to a women's college in Denton, Texas, Lovell, in 2000 in an exhibition titled "Whispers From the Walls", built at The Studio Museum in Harlem an intimate environment with layered voices, artifacts,... Read full biography
East Village in New York-based artist, Whitfield Lovell, does mix-media installations that center on memory and history and evoke a harrowing tale of post-Reconstruction America. Inspired by the forced removal of a thriving African American community in 1921 because of fears about its proximity to a women's college in Denton, Texas, Lovell, in 2000 in an exhibition titled "Whispers From the Walls", built at The Studio Museum in Harlem an intimate environment with layered voices, artifacts, portraits, and sounds. In this exhibition, Lovell created a sturdy one-room cabin constructed of cast-off wooden supports with various accoutrements that suggest limited means and modest hopes of the community's inhabitants - an old victrola playing... Read full biography
East Village in New York-based artist, Whitfield Lovell, does mix-media installations that center on memory and history and evoke a harrowing tale of post-Reconstruction America. Inspired by the forced removal of a thriving African American community in 1921 because of fears about its proximity to a women's college in Denton, Texas, Lovell, in 2000 in an exhibition titled "Whispers From the Walls", built at The Studio Museum in Harlem an intimate environment with layered voices, artifacts, portraits, and sounds. In this exhibition, Lovell created a sturdy one-room cabin constructed of cast-off wooden supports with various accoutrements that suggest limited means and modest hopes of the community's inhabitants - an old victrola playing country blues, a bed neatly spread with an hand-made quilt, an open encyclopedia and a half-empty liquor decanter. The walls of the s... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Drawing, Draftsmanship, Draughtsman
- •Installation Art
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Photography as Fine Art
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Subject
- •Black, African Culture, Figure, Genre, Civil Rights
- •History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
- •Portraits, Portraiture
Art School
- •Cooper Union Art School, Cooper School of Design, Student
- •Maryland Institute of Design, College of Art, Student
- •Parsons, The New School for Design, Student
- •School of Visual Arts, New York, Teacher
- •Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Teacher
Awards/Recognition
- •John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Ethnicity of Artist
- •Black, African-American and/or Caribbean