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Whitfield Lovell (Born 1959) is active/lives in New York. Whitfield Lovell is 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 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 shelter and the gallery are populated by life-sized drawings based on archival studio photographs of ...
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Whitfield Lovell
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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 Media
Charcoal
Mixed Media, Multi Media
Watercolor/Watercolour
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
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