...Julie L. McGee This essay examines recent work by the American artist Whitfield Lovell, who has been collecting and using vintage accoutrements—the material culture of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century African American life, including photographs—for many years. He is best known for his...

... significant objects floating above or below. Seemingly ancestral to Whitfield Lovell s Kin series (ca. 2008 11) of photo-based pencil portraits on which small found objects are collaged, they share a similarly fragmented, poignant air of dignity and survival. While there is no direct link from White to Lovell...

.... Others, such as Marlene Dumas, António Ole, Nari Ward, Fred Okwui Enwezor, Wilson, Yto Barrada, Wangechi Mutu, Meschac Salah M. Hassan, Gaba, Theaster Gates, Rashid Johnson, Kara Walker, Chika Okeke-Agulu Whitfield Lovell, Julie Mehretu, Kehinde Wiley, and Lalla Essaydi, are now frequently cited...