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Whitfield Lovell

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   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5140 characters.]  Artist bio

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