Baltimore-based painter and printmaker LaToya M. Hobbs is working at her biggest scale yet, while maintaining her intimate attention to detail. Her newest exhibition at the Harvard Art Museums features, for the first time altogether, five eight-by-twelve foot woodcut prints of herself and her family, each part of one day in Hobbs’s life: from waking up with her husband and children to ending the day at work in her studio.
In an online profile, fellow printmaker
@oluwatobilobaajayi_ details the rigor of Hobbs’s practice, including how she made her most recent work over the span of a year, the lineage of Black women printmakers who inspire Hobbs, and the symbolism of the printmaking process itself as Hobbs marks her labor as a mother, artist, and person into each woodblock.
Read the full profile at the link in our bio and catch “LaToya M. Hobbs: It’s Time” at the Harvard Art Museums through July 21, 2024 which, in the words of Ajayi, “is just a recent example of her endearing commitment to the work of Black women’s hands.”
Pictured: Installation view, “LaToya M. Hobbs: It’s Time,” on display at the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA. Photos © President and Fellows of Harvard College. Courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums.
