

Whitfield Lovell
Maurice Sanchez, printer
2010- 2011
Workshop: March 28-30, 2011
Whitfield Lovell visited Smith in the Spring of 2011 in conjunction with the exhibition More Than You Know: Works by Whitfield Lovell (January 28–May 1, 2011). This major exhibition featured the artist’s Kin drawings—a series of meticulously-drawn portraits of anonymous African-Americans juxtaposed with resonant objects. Using a range of vernacular photographs as his source, Lovell’s drawings give voice to the unidentified and forgotten, creating open-ended narratives through simple and elegant means.
This project was extended through Lovell’s work with the Smith College Print Workshop, where he collaborated with Master Printer Maurice Sanchez on a limited-edition lithograph, as well as experimenting with monotype. The resulting published print, Deuce, depicts two disembodied heads of African-American men, one seen in ¾ view, the second in profile. Two versions of the image were published, each featuring one of the heads inverted: This simple technique changes the focus of the image and opens the interpretive possibilities.
Whitfield Lovell. American, 1959–

Deuce (version A), 2011
Lithograph on Ivory Plike paper

Deuce (version B), 2011
Lithograph on Ivory Plike paper