“Recent Work by Whitfield Lovell and Visions From the South,” Gambit Weekly

Whitfield Lovell collects old photographs of African-Americans, often decked out in their best suits and posed formally before the camera. Displaying fine draftsmanship, he recreates their images on wooden planks and then incorporates antique symbolic objects in his eloquent sculptural assemblages. Deuce is emblematic: A black couple from a century ago posed with a Victorian chair. Extending from the front of the sepia wooden planks is a tabletop covered in antique lace and vintage silverware. The vintage objects and eerily photographic images contribute to a resonant sense of “presence” that allows us entry into a time and place different from our own, yet so familiar that we can readily relate.

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“The Art of Allusion and Illusion,” New Orleans Art Review

Shifting gears, in James Drake’s grand baroque theater drawing, Dancing in the Louvre, the elegantly simulated moldings mediate the viewer’s imaginative transgression of the proscenium plane. The gown that overflows into the foreground space, the dynamic diagonal and counterpoint of the dancers’ elegantly dressed forms, and the two point perspective defined by the pedestal at the left and the voyeur couple on the right serves to establish a continuum from the viewer’s real world space through the fore,
middle, and implied distance.

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Whitfield Lovell 2010

Arthur Roger Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of mixed media on wood assemblages by Whitfield Lovell. The exhibition will be on view March 6th – April 17th at Arthur Roger Gallery located at 432 Julia Street. An opening reception will be hosted by the gallery on Saturday, March 6th from 6 to 8 pm.

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Gregory Scott: Outside the Frame

Arthur Roger@434 is pleased to present an exhibition of mixed media work with video by Gregory Scott. The exhibition will be on view March 6th – April 17th at Arthur Roger@434 located at 434 Julia Street. The artist will be in attendance at the opening reception hosted by the gallery on Saturday, March 6th from 6 to 8 pm.

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3 Questions For … Gene Koss

by Andrew Page for UrbanGlass GLASS Quarterly Hot Sheet: What are you working on?Gene Koss: I’m currently working on a monumental sculpture 13-by-10-by-30 feet titled Line Fence. It’s inspired by the feeling of… 

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