For Gerald Lovell (b. 1992), painting is an act of biography. Combining flat and impressionistic painting with thick daubs of impasto, Lovell creates monumental, loving scenes often lost to the abyss of memory. His portraits refuse the notion that all Black figures put down on canvas are somehow political. Rather, his work records a deep commitment to fostering alternative community narratives by imbuing his subjects with social agency and self-determinative power, while also revealing individualistic details that lay their essential humanity bare. Born in Chicago, IL, and raised in Atlanta, GA, Lovell currently lives and works in New York City. He has exhibited at P·P·O·W, New York, NY; Jeffrey Deitch, Moore Building, Miami, FL; Anthony Gallery, Chicago, IL; Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture, Charlotte, NC; MINT, Atlanta, GA; and Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, CH; among others. In 2022, Lovell’s work was on view in What is Left Unspoken, Love at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, and featured in a concurrent publication with DelMonico Books. His work is now in the museum’s permanent collection. Lovell completed the Fountainhead Artists Residency in October 2023. Featuring pieces honoring the terrains of his past and expressing gratitude for new horizons, his second exhibition with P·P·O·W, verde, was held in Spring 2024. His artistic process was discussed in The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing, published by Penguin Press.