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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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5 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Whitfield Lovell
Magazine Article Date Author Color
ARTnews Past Present May 2008 Sheets, Hilarie Yes
Art in America Review of Exhibitions September 2006 Editor Yes
Southwest Art Art Events-Texas July 2004 Osterman, Julie Yes
Art Times New Art Books May 2003 Editors, Art Times Yes
ARTnews New York Reviews October 2000 Editors, ARTnews Yes
4 Book References for Whitfield Lovell
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2004 McGowan, Alison C (Editor) Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition) 1512 No
2003 Lippard, Lucy R The Art of Whitfield Lovell Whispers from the Walls 128 Yes
1998 Taha, Halima Collecting African American Art Works on Paper and Canvas 270 Yes
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