The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 19, 2025
Hieroglyph 1
2018
(American, b. 1992)
Image: 114 x 76.1 cm (44 7/8 x 29 15/16 in.); Paper: 118.6 x 80.9 cm (46 11/16 x 31 7/8 in.)
L. E. Holden Fund 2020.280
© D’Angelo Lovell Williams
Location: Not on view
Did You Know?
Touch—black flesh meeting black flesh—is a central theme in the art of D’Angelo Lovell Williams.Description
These two men, whose arched backs and clasped hands form a symmetrical, abstracted character, are the artist and a lover. In this exploration of intimate gestures and connections, they balance and mirror each other. “Discovering the variations of intimacy is important for Black and queer people,” says the artist, “because that looks so different for many of us, and it doesn’t even exist to others.”- D'Angelo Lovell Williams (the artist) [1992-]?-2020(Higher Pictures Generation, New York, NY)December 7, 2020The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2020.280