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Whitfield Lovell : passages / edited by Michèle Wije ; essays by Cheryl Finley, Bridget R. Cooks.

New York, NY : Rizzoli Electa, a division of Rizzoli International Publications, Inc. : American Federation of Arts, [2023]

170 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm

"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 Conť 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

Lovell, Whitfield, 1959- -- Exhibitions.

Artists -- United States.

African American artists.

African Americans in art.

Installations (Art)

Exhibition catalogs

Lovell, Whitfield, 1959- artist.

Wije, Michèle, editor, curator.

Forlenza, Pauline, writer of foreword

Finley, Cheryl, contributor.

Cooks, Bridget R., 1972- contributor.

Lovell, Whitfield, 1959- Works. Selections.

Boca Raton Museum of Art, host institution.

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, host institution.

Arkansas Arts Center, host institution.

Cincinnati Art Museum host institution.

Mint Museum (Charlotte, N.C.), host institution.

McNay Art Museum, host institution.

Passages

"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.

Includes bibliographical references (page 165).

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

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