Whitfield Lovell - All Things In Time
date:Sunday, November 2, 2008 time:12:00 PM to 5:00 PM venue:Hudson River Museum address:511 Warburton Avenue Yonkers, NY 10701 View map from:Hudson River Museum
Whitfield Lovell - All Things In Time
Whitfield Lovell will be presented at the Hudson River Museum as a large-scale
survey exhibition showcasing the work of one of the contemporary art world’s
finest interpreters of lost or contested history. Born in the Bronx in 1959,
Lovell has become internationally recognized for his large-scale tableaux and
room-sized installations that combine evocative found historical objects with
exquisitely rendered life-sized charcoal portraits, frequently based on historic
photographs. These elements are combined to strikingly picturesque effect and
create a dramatic situation or “scene” which is left to the viewer to interpret.
Lovell finds the raw materials for his art in tag sales, flea markets, and
architectural salvage yards. His work focuses on the lives of African Americans
in the United States from the span of Reconstruction through World War II, and
his work subtly suggests this period’s intense societal and political changes.
Many of the photographs that inspire Lovell’s art are of anonymous individuals,
the biographical details of their lives lost to time. The imaginary narratives
that Lovell constructs gives them a sense of agency and provides arresting
contrasts, which attest to the artist’s great creativity in transforming
everyday objects into powerful commentary on society.
Admissions: Adult - $5; Seniors and Children - $3; Members - Free
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