FAITH RINGGOLD SERIAL
FAITH RINGGOLD SERIES

FAITH RINGGOLD SERIAL

a statement about the civil rights movement and what was happening to black people at that time, and to make it super-real.” 1 To fulfill this ambition, the artist turned to serial imagery. Ringgold described her American People Series, executed from 1963 to 1967, as “intended to make. The generous spacing of objects accommodated the large scale of the quilts, while natural light flooding the interior space further enhanced the visibility and immediacy of the works on display. The intimate but uncrowded spaces of the gallery encouraged close interaction with the objects on view, while its “white cube” design provided a suitably neutral background for both the brilliant color and minute detail of the quilts and the darker colors and broader forms of the paintings (fig.1). It also allowed them to perceive the changes as well, with the introduction of new subjects, mediums, and techniques over the span of her career by juxtaposing three of Ringgold’s American People canvases from the 1960s with seven of her more recent story quilts.

The Houldsworth exhibition allowed visitors to trace elements of continuity-most obviously, the artist’s enduring commitment to the human figure as a vehicle for artistic and political expression. Installation view of Faith Ringgold: Paintings and Story Quilts, 1964–2017, solo exhibition, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, 2018 photography by Benjamin Westoby Ringgold’s work has now come to the wider attention of audiences in the United Kingdom and Europe as well. Long recognized in the United States, Ms.

FAITH RINGGOLD SERIES

The exhibition, Faith Ringgold: Paintings and Story Quilts, 1964–2017, afforded viewers a unique opportunity to appraise the artistic development and contemporary relevance of one of the preeminent figures in American art today and featured a selection of early paintings from the artist’s American People Series and story quilts dating from the 1980s to 2017 (fig.1). The Pippy Houldsworth Gallery in London recently presented the first European solo exhibition devoted to the art of Faith Ringgold. Exhibition schedule: Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, February 23–April 14, 2018

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