Faith Ringgold
“Prints and Multiples”
New York, 529 West 20th Street
Timed to coincide with her first major retrospective in New York at the New Museum of Contemporary Art and traveling to the DeYoung Museum, San Francisco (July 16 – November 27, 2022) this exhibition explores Ringgold’s career spanning interest in prints and editions. Starting with political posters created in the 1970s, the show includes works from every major series – American People; The French Collection; Jazz Stories; Coming to Jones Road Part 1 and 2; quilt editions from Woman on a Bridge and many artworks never exhibited before. The exhibition debuts 2 new editions: Women Dancing on the George Washington Bridge, a silkscreen on silk with a unique hand quilted border and Woman Looking in a Mirror a silkscreen edition based on the 1966 painting of the same title. The exhibition demonstrates Ringgold’s commitment to prints and editions as means to disseminate her artwork and make it available to a wide range of collectors.
About Faith Ringgold
Faith Ringgold is a painter, mixed media sculptor, teacher, humanist, lecturer and author of numerous award-winning children’s books. Tar Beach, her first children’s book based on a quilt of the same title, has won over 20 awards including the Caldecott Honor and the Coretta Scott King award for the best-illustrated children's book of 1991. It proved so popular that it was adapted into an animated short for HBO in 1999. The original painted story quilt is in the permanent collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City and is currently on view at the New Museum in New York.
Recently Faith Ringgold’s body of work has gained increasing recognition from the art world establishment for its importance and contribution to the canon of art history.
