非裔美国人艺术家Faith Ringgold的第一个回顾展计划于今年夏天在旧金山的de Young博物馆首次亮相。
“ Faith Ringgold：美国人民”定于7月16日在4月28日星期四宣布的旧金山美术博物馆的De Young美术博物馆的二楼画廊开放。该展览计划于11月27日举行。
The retrospective, currently on view at New York’s New Museum, will span more than 50 years of Ringgold’s career and include nearly 100 objects. Among them will be paintings, performance ephemera, materials related to her children’s books, and textile works.
Janna Keegan, assistant curator of contemporary art and programming for Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, called Ringgold “one of the artists very active in creating a visual vocabulary for the African Diaspora, (who was) looking towards African art to really inspire her.”
Examples of the artist’s famed story quilts, which have been celebrated for their use of African and African American craft traditions to depict Black narratives, will be prominently featured, Keegan added. Subjects of Ringgold’s quilts have included themes as expansive as the social conditions of racism and notions of community as well as personal episodes like her struggles as a working mother and political activist.
在91岁时，林戈尔德被视为最终的艺术家之一，他们在媒介中的作品有助于在美术界被缝被更广泛地接受。
Among the quilts Keegan is excited to have on display is “Tar Beach,” which inspired Ringgold’s 1991 children’s book of the same name. The quilt is the first in her “Woman on a Bridge” series and will be on loan from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.
其他融合纺织品的媒体包括林戈德的早期，未拉伸的画布，这些画布上缝上了织物上的织物，灵感来自传统的藏族thangka壁挂式悬挂。
To date, Ringgold has written and illustrated 17 books, most of which touch on similar themes of identity and prejudice as her visual art. Keegan said that Ringgold, a longtime educator, has actively sought out young audiences “because she sees children as a potential for revolutionary change.”
Ringgold, now based in New Jersey, was born into the 1930s Harlem cultural scene and has long engaged with Black political and social subjects in her work. In her 1963 painting series “American People,” she portrayed themes of struggle during the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. Her related 1967 work, “The Flag Is Bleeding,” remains one of her most iconic images, with the piece showing a Black man holding his hand over a chest wound next to two white figures. It will be included in the exhibition.
From 1967 to 1969, she also painted works in what she called the “Black Light” series, which challenged the use of white pigments as the basis in most painting. The series used shades of black and darker hues as the base for images, many of which demonstrated her interest in African masks and other traditions.
Masks are also a key element in Ringgold’s performance art practice, which includes the works “The Wake” and “Resurrection of the Bicentennial Negro.”
“As an artist, author, educator and organizer, Faith Ringgold is one of the most influential cultural figures of her generation, inspiring young artists working today through her decades of activism and action,” Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco CEO Thomas P. Campbell said in a statement.
林戈尔德的政治和艺术在1970年代都与湾区相交，并支持黑豹党和黑色权力运动。她的1971年政治海报“自由安吉拉（Free Angela）”是为当地激进主义者安吉拉·戴维斯（Angela Davis）提供支持的一部分，是她最著名的作品之一。
基冈说：“我认为她不在许多机构收藏中的原因之一是因为她正在积极抗议这些机构。”“我认为政府承担她的作品的沉默。”
Ringgold的回顾性将与展览的展览重叠Obama presidential portraitsalso planned at the de Young this summer, painted by Black artists Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald. Together “the legacy of groundbreaking Black artists will resound throughout our galleries,” said Campbell.
“信仰林戈德：美国人民”：Painting, textile and mixed media. 9:30 a.m.-5:15 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday. Opens July 16. On view through Nov. 27. $15-$30. De Young Museum, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, S.F. 415-750-3600.deyoung.famsf.org
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