![]() ![]() Ringgold also began making soft sculptures and masks. The collaboration with her mother eventually led to the making of their first quilt, Echoes of Harlem, in 1980. In fact, in these works, Ringgold imagined to be an African woman captured and sold into slavery. These thangkas inspired her to produce fabric borders around her own work, so when she returned to the US, a new painting series was born: The Slave Rape Series. In the museum, Ringgold encountered a collection of 14th- and 15th-century Nepali paintings with cloth brocades as frames. In Amsterdam, she visited the Rijksmuseum, which became one of the most influential experiences affecting her mature work, and subsequently, lead to the development of her quilt paintings. ![]() In the early 1970s, Faith Ringgold abandoned traditional oils for painting in acrylic on unstretched canvas with fabric borders, a technique evoking Tibetan thangkas (silk paintings with embroidery). The artist is also known for her children’s books, which she writes and illustrates. Often associated with her ties to feminism, postcolonialist critique, and activism, she addresses controversial subject matter through a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, performance, and quilt work. Sunflower quilting bee at Arles, 1997įaith Ringgold is an American artist, famous for her colorful abstractions which often depict themes from American history and politics. ![]() ![]() A fervent civil rights and gender equality activist, Faith Ringgold has produced an inherently political oeuvre. ![]()
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