Latoya M. Hobbs: Carving Out Time (Hardcover)

A celebration of printmaker LaToya M. Hobbs featuring a suite of life-size woodcut prints Carving Out Time is a monumental print series by LaToya M. Hobbs (b. 1983) a painter and printmaker based in Baltimore. This publication--the first of its kind on the artist--presents the series in full with commentary on both Hobbs s practice and broader themes pertinent to her work and to the field of contemporary printmaking. Unfolding over five scenes Hobbs s towering woodcuts depict a day in her life with her husband and their two children. Hobbs extends the intimacy of her private life centering the negotiations she brokers daily to balance her responsibilities as a wife mother educator and artist--a contemplation of nuanced concepts of time and labor that is at once deeply personal and universal. The book serves as an art historical guide to Hobbs s daily conversation with sculpture paintings and prints by visionary Black artists including Jean-Michel Basquiat Elizabeth Catlett and Kerry James Marshall living within this print series depicted on the walls and bookshelves in the family home. Distributed for the Harvard Art Museums