Faith Ringgold, R.I.P. * American Artist ~ 1930 – 2024

“Faith Ringgold: American People”  was her West Coast debut at the de Young museum in San Francisco, CA November 2022.

“Bringing together fifty years of work, this is the most comprehensive exhibition to date of Faith Ringgold’s groundbreaking vision…”

“From creating some of the most indelible artworks of the civil rights era to challenging accepted hierarchies of art versus craft through her experimental story quilts, Faith Ringgold’s body of work bears witness to the complexity of the American experience.”

Faith Ringgold: American People

de Young Museum: Golden Gate Park \ 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive,  SF, CA

(Image: Faith Ringgold, pictured before her 1997 painting, “The Flag Is Bleeding #2”)

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Women & Art at the Modern, Ft. Worth, TX

In a salute to Women’s History month, below is a repeat of one of last year’s art tributes:

A coiled Bronze Woman! in the gallery  of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth’ I love it! I want this in my home:

“The Seated III” Wangechi Mutu, 2019
Bronze (82 7/8 × 37 3/4 × 33 3/4 inches)

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth presented “Women Painting Women” – an “exhibition featuring 46 female artists who choose women as subject matter in their works. This presentation includes approximately 50 evocative portraits that span the late 1960s to the present. International in scope, Women Painting Women recognizes female perspectives that have been underrepresented in the history of postwar figuration.”

Women Painting Women 

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

3200 Darnell Street
Fort Worth, Texas 76107
817.738.9215

*The Artists:

Rita Ackermann
Njideka Akunyili Crosby
Emma Amos
María Berrío
Louise Bonnet
Lisa Brice
Joan Brown
Jordan Casteel
Somaya Critchlow
Kim Dingle
Marlene Dumas
Celeste Dupuy-Spencer
Nicole Eisenman
Tracey Emin
Natalie Frank

Hope Gangloff
Eunice Golden
Jenna Gribbon
Alex Heilbron
Ania Hobson
Luchita Hurtado
Chantal Joffe
Hayv Kahraman
Maria Lassnig
Christiane Lyons
Danielle Mckinney
Marilyn Minter
Alice Neel
Elizabeth Peyton
Paula Rego

Faith Ringgold Deborah Roberts
Susan Rothenberg
Jenny Saville
Dana Schutz
Joan Semmel
Amy Sherald
Lorna Simpson
Arpita Singh
Sylvia Sleigh
Apolonia Sokol
May Stevens
Claire Tabouret
Mickalene Thomas
Nicola Tyson
Lisa Yuskavage

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“Vida Americana” At The Whitney

“Vida Americana” At The Whitney

 

The Whitney Museum, NYC, presents: “Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945”.

“Mexico underwent a radical cultural transformation at the end of its Revolution in 1920. A new relationship between art and the public was established, giving rise to art that spoke directly to the people about social justice and national life… It galvanized artists in the United States who were seeking to break free of European aesthetic domination to create publicly significant and accessible native art.”

The exhibition contains about 200 works by 60 Mexican and American artists, including José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros.

Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945

Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Gansevoort Street, NYC

(Image: David Alfaro Siqueiros, Echo of a Scream, 1937)

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Ansel Adams At The Legion of Honor Museum, San Francisco

Ansel Adams in Our Time: The Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco, CA presents a group of more than 100 pieces of his work.

“Laid out in seven sections tracing Adams’s artistic development, the exhibition features some of his most-loved photographs, including images of Yosemite, San Francisco, and the American Southwest.”

Ansel Adams in Our Time

Until July 23, 2023

Image : Moon and Half Dome, Yosemite ~ Ansel Adams, 1902 – 1984

 

Naudline Pierre ~ Dallas Museum of Art

 

“Naudline Pierre: What Could Be Has Not Yet Appeared”

“The DMA presents the first solo museum exhibition of works by Naudline Pierre, whose vividly hued paintings portray opaque, otherworldly narratives through depictions of supernatural beings entangled in complex scenes of struggle and intimacy.”

Dallas Museum of Art / DMA

1717 North Harwood
Dallas, Texas

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