Faith ringgold

Ringgold is the subject of the Serpentine Galleries' summer exhibition and to coincide with the opening, Matchesfashion.com has also dedicated a room at 5 Carlos Place to celebrate her work.

Faith Ringgold (born October 8, 1930 in Harlem, New York City) is an American painter, writer, mixed media sculptor, and performance artist, best known for her narrative quilts set in the context of African American culture and history. Her “story quilts,” politically charged paintings, and more hang in the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the

We Came to America, Faith Ringgold, 1997, Acrylic on canvas; painted and pieced border, 74.5 x 79.5 inches

Faith Ringgold's New Museum retrospective in New York offers a study in how major artists can go overlooked.

Faith Ringgold, "You Put the Devil in Me" (2004). Screenprint on paper, 29 1/4 x 22 1/4 in. (74.295 x 56.515 cm.). Art by Women Collection, Gift of Linda Lee Alter (2011.1.162). © Faith Ringgold / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, Courtesy ACA Galleries, New York.

An appreciation for the 92-year-old African American mixed media artist, activist and role model who continues to live creatively

Faith Ringgold made her first quilt, Echoes of Harlem, with her mother, Madame Willi Posey, in 1980. She was inspired to pursue quiltmaking as a vehicle for her art after hearing her mother’s stories of their enslaved ancestors who were trained to make quilts on plantations. By 1990, the year of her residency at FWM, Ringgold had completed a second quilt, Who’s Afraid of Aunt Jemima?, her first story quilt incorporating both text and image. [...]

Between friendship links on Facebook and research on Ancestry.com (which I’ve decided is Facebook for the dearly departed), I’ve been able to make connections and conduct a level of int…

The narrative quilt tells the story of runaway enslaved people escaping north through the Underground Railroad.

ARTGENCE - Artwork on Instagram: “Faith Ringgold "The Flag is Bleeding #2 (American Collection #6)" 1997 Acrylic on canvas, painted and pieced border Faith Ringgold…”