Each portrait in Lovell’s current exhibition is a lens through which to consider the complex humanity of Black subjectivity in American history.
Whitfield Lovell
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A New Film Charts 150 Years of African-American Art
Black Is the Color, a 50-minute documentary, offers a survey of African-American art from 1867 to today.
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Mining Portraits of the Past for Stories of Our Shared Humanity
Whitfield Lovell reinterprets found imagery and references evocative cultural touchstones to add further layers and textures to his drawings and mixed media installations.
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From Flint with Love, Art of the African Diaspora
Unlike many notable private art collections that serve the public good only after they have been donated to a museum (or turned into museums of their own), the Mott-Warsh Collection was conceived to fulfill a larger social purpose.