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MARCELLOUS LOVELACE CREATES ART TO LIBERATE THE BLACK MIND // NON CONFORMIST IMAGES OF DECOLONIZATION

  • Jan 3
  • 2 min read

Updated: Feb 4


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Marcellous Lovelace


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Marcellous Lovelace a full-time multidisciplinary creator of Black Art (Painter, Filmmaker, Animator and Sound Designer) and Hip Hop music creator. I’ve done all my creative expressions my entire life from a young age. The art form that I practice is mainly Black Art / African Awareness Painting in Mixed Media with Found Materials. I paint from my experience living on the South Side of Chicago and Living in Poverty all over America. I use found objects throughout the Cities like Chicago and The State of Illinois as the reference of my surroundings in my work. I work on everything from old found pieces of paper, garbage cans, tires, mattresses and used construction material found from torn down buildings. I learned to call myself an Afro Urban Indigenous Folk Artist because every idea needs some type of label I guess. The tragedies that occur in my city help me reinterpret the oppression on all surfaces. I was born and raised on the South Side of Chicago in a community called Roseland. This segregated poverty-stricken environment helped me to develop over 400 images a year over the last 35 plus years of my life. Creating over 20 paintings a week over my lifetime that’s about 25,000 paintings and drawings or more (way more). The environment I was reared in is so negative it helps me to create beauty from this struggle.Inspired by AfriCOBRA art (a collective of Chicago African American visual artists). I also was influenced by television cartoons, including “The Jackson 5ive,” “Fat Albert and the Gang,” “Harlem Globetrotters” and “Mr. T.” My main inspiration comes from African-American artists Hale Woodruff, John T. Biggers, Horace Pippin, William Johnson and Charles Wilbert White.Art Style Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1ZpFQ-Dm-A


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