{"id":332,"date":"2016-12-30T03:29:57","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T03:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/printmaking-workshop-series\/?page_id=332"},"modified":"2017-09-26T14:45:08","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T14:45:08","slug":"whitfield-lovell-2010-2011","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/printmaking-workshop-series\/whitfield-lovell-2010-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitfield Lovell, 2010 – 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Smith student Kate Conlon assists Maurice Sanchez in printing Whitfield Lovell\u2019s lithographs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Whitfield Lovell draws on frosted Mylar for a monotype print.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Whitfield Lovell<\/strong>
\nMaurice Sanchez, printer
\n2010- 2011<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Workshop: March 28-30, 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n

Whitfield Lovell visited Smith in the Spring of 2011 in conjunction with the exhibition More Than You Know: Works by Whitfield Lovell <\/em>(January 28\u2013May 1, 2011). This major exhibition featured the artist\u2019s Kin<\/em> drawings\u2014a series of meticulously-drawn portraits of anonymous African-Americans juxtaposed with resonant objects. Using a range of vernacular photographs as his source, Lovell\u2019s drawings give voice to the unidentified and forgotten, creating open-ended narratives through simple and elegant means.<\/span><\/p>\n

This project was extended through Lovell\u2019s 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<\/em>, depicts two disembodied heads of African-American men, one seen in \u00be 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.<\/span><\/p>\n