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   Cover art:  Papilla Estelar (1958) by Remedios Varo    icon: Light of the Iris by Georgia O' Keefe
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“UNTITLED (THWART THE LAW)” BARBARA KRUGER // 1987 [gelatin silver print | 65 x 49″]

I’m interested in making art that displaces the powers that tell us who we can be and who we can’t be.—B.K.

Faith Ringgold, Born in a Cotton Field: The American Collection #3, 1997. Acrylic on canvas with painted and pieced fabric. 73 ½ × 79 ½ in (186.7 × 201.9 cm) Private collection

Ruth Asawa, Untitled (S.410, Hanging Seven-Lobed, Three-Part Continuous Form (Stripes)), c. 1955, galvanized steel and brass wire, 81 x 8 x 7 ½ in. (205.7 x 20.3 x 17.8 cm.)

Groovin’ High, 1996, silkscreen by Faith Ringgold (American, born 1930).  

Photography by John Polak.

Faith Ringgold (American, born 1930). Best known for imaginative textile artworks called story quilts, Ringgold draws on her lived experience and on collective histories to create captivating narrative images. Since the 1990s, Ringgold has used silkscreen prints, such as those on view in this exhibition to share her work more widely. In her prints, Ringgold revisits her childhood in Harlem and amplifies the stories of people she admires.