The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 19, 2024

Mama's Always Watching

Mama's Always Watching

2017
(American, b. 1992)
America, 21st century
inkjet print
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.)
L. E. Holden Fund 2020.279
© D’Angelo Lovell Williams
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

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

Description

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.
  • D'Angelo Lovell Williams (the artist) [1992-]
    ?-2020
    (Higher Pictures Generation, New York, NY)
    December 7, 2020
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Picturing Motherhood Now. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 16, 2021-March 13, 2022).
  • {{cite web|title=Mama's Always Watching|url=false|author=D'Angelo Lovell Williams|year=2017|access-date=19 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2020.279