Mama's Always Watching

2017
(American, b. 1992)
Image: 49.5 x 33 cm (19 1/2 x 13 in.); Paper: 54.4 x 37.5 cm (21 7/16 x 14 3/4 in.)
© D’Angelo Lovell Williams
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Location: not on view

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D’Angelo Lovell Williams knew he was gay at age four or five.

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Here, and throughout his work, D’Angelo Lovell Williams explores intersections of Blackness, queerness, and family. The artist sits beneath a photograph of his mother as a young woman. One hand points toward his groin. Lovell Williams remained closeted while growing up because he believed neither his family nor his community in Jackson, Mississippi, would accept a gay man. That identification animates his layered compositions in works like this one.
Mama's Always Watching

Mama's Always Watching

2017

D'Angelo Lovell Williams

(American, b. 1992)
America, 21st century

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