Faith Ringgold, American People #15 (1996). Image courtesy: Houldsworth We’re kicking off our selection of exhibitions with an exciting one which opened on 17th of February, running until 5th June 2022 at the New Museum in New York, which has a longstanding history with Ringgold. The prestigious exhibition will be hosting the largest retrospective of Faith Ringgold’s work, incorporating a range of her iconic artworks, including soft sculptures and her large-scale, figurative murals which delineate racial and gender devisions in the 1960s with an astute poignancy. a multicoloured quilt artwork by Faith Ringgold showing 12 Black men and women dining together Faith Ringgold, The Bitter Nest: Part II (1988). Image Courtesy: Smithsonian American Art Muesum This exhibition will demonstrate how Ringgold’s work formed an intersection between visual art and non-Western craft, such as through her works that manipulated canvases with mixed media, influenced by Tibetan Thangkas. Almost working chronologically, the exhibition will exhibit her projects that catalysed her unique, super-realist visual language and her quilt work, such as her canvas work. The spectrum of her quilt work on display will culminate in an autobiographical depiction of historical events experienced by Ringgold. This includes the Harlem Renaissance, and her experiences as an African-American woman, mother and artist, living through the interlacing societal phases of emancipation and protest against socio-political hierarchies. The exhibition will collate a diverse range of scholarly input, taking a retrospective look at sources readily available and newly created contributions, by a range of curators and writers from across the generations, including Lucy Lippard, LeRonn Books and Tschabalala Self.

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