Lovell is a graduate of Cooper Union. He shows with DC Moore Gallery and his work has featured recently in Supernatural (Toledo Museum of Art, Minneapolis Institute of Art) and The Dirty South (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, High Museum, MCA Denver).
Kellie Jones is chair of the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University.
Julie L. McGee is a curator at the University Museums of the University of Delaware. Prior to this, she was a professor at Bowdoin College in Maine.