#faith-ringgold

[ follow ]
#slave-rape-series #black-womanhood #art-history #story-quilts #black-art #feminist-mural #quilted-portraiture
fromwww.amny.com
3 weeks ago

A reckoning in color: Faith Ringgold's fierce legacy shakes the walls at Jack Shainman Gallery | amNewYork

Faith Ringgold did not simply paint historyshe broke it open. She reached into the marrow of America's most violent foundations, pulled forth the bones, and demanded that we look. Her Slave Rape Seriesraw, spiritual, brutal, and incandescentremains one of the most courageous achievements in American art, a portal through which the full seismic force of her career becomes legible. Through these paintings, she forged a new language for Black womanhood, a new architecture for Black truth, and an entirely new horizon for artistic liberation.
Writing
Arts
fromColossal
1 month ago

A Retrospective of Trailblazing Artist Faith Ringgold Centers Narratives of Black Americans

Faith Ringgold fused history, activism, and global influences into multimedia work—especially story quilts—that center Black experience, gender, and racial identity.
Arts
fromJuxtapoz
2 months ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - Bisa Butler: Hold Me Close @ Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Los Angeles

Quilted portraits demand empathy, reckon with historical and present injustices, and call for tenderness and solidarity amid escalating threats to civil rights and human dignity.
[ Load more ]