Ed Love “Looking Back to Move Forward”

Kravets/Wehby Gallery

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“The welded steel sculptures of Washington’s Ed Love are African as river spirits, American as cars.

They’re made of scavenged scrap yard junk — saw blades, rake teeth, plumbers’ pipes, chains, chromed Pinto bumpers — but they have the look of beings, not human beings exactly, and not robots either. They have an older sort of power. They look like hawk-headed Egyptian gods, wounded metal warriors, ferocious forest guardians or clanking statues in the park that rise and walk at night.”

—Paul Richard, Washington Post 1986

Kravets Wehby Gallery and the Estate of Ed Love (1936-1999) are pleased to present an exhibition of sculpture from the 70s, 80s, and 90s.

A Guggenheim Fellow, an Air Force Veteran, and a visionary, Ed Love’s sculpture is unapologetic. In the late 60s, Ed began teaching at Howard University and spent nearly 2 decades there, eventually becoming the dean of the school of art. This is where Ed affirmed his integral role in the rise of D.C.’s art scene and the Black Arts Movement alongside Jeff Donaldson, Sam Gilliam, and Alma Thomas. His work has been collected exhibited by the Baltimore Museum of Art, Studio Museum in Harlem, Dallas Museum of Art, High Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.