...Jody B. Cutler-Bittner [email protected] © 2022 by Nka Publications 2022 REVIEWS FAITH RINGGOLD: AMERICAN PEOPLE THE NEW MUSEUM, NEW YORK FEBRUARY 17 JUNE 5, 2022 Among my most memorable art exp­ er­ iences was visiting the New Museum s exhibition Dancing at the Louvre: Faith...

... was "going to put Jones Road on the map." This, Ringgold is doing in a variety of ways. The Jones Road Series and The Anyone Can Fly Foundation The Jones Road series will "channel" (Ringgold's Photographic portrait of Faith Ringgold. term) a multi-part narrative from the late...

...Anne Monahan The year 1967 was a transitional moment for the rehabilitation of activist art and the formation of black identity. It was likewise significant for Faith Ringgold, who was preparing the solo exhibition that would introduce her to the New York art world. That summer, after riots...

...Michele Wallace In an article written by her daughter Michele Wallace, Faith Ringgold’s Black Light series is presented as part of an experiment in the 1960s quest for the creation of a “black aesthetics” best understood in relation to Ringgold’s life and the evolution of her oeuvre. Black...

..., in the United Kingdom) by the likes of Faith Ringgold at the Serpentine, London, and Nick Cave at Tramway, Glasgow.2 Away from the United Kingdom, we might also consider the significance of African American artists such as Robert Colescott, Martin Puryear, and Simone Leigh representing the United States...

.... Robison III Cutler Nka 151 smoothly carved, morphing cedar sculp- ture Black Unity (1968), which depicts a fist on one face and an enlarged, twinning mask resembling a Baule-type on the other. Two now iconic works by Catlett s close heritors, Betye Saar and Faith Ringgold, were a joint coup...

... supporters of the vidual artists such as Camille Billops, Elizabeth women artists. In 1968 I had been fortunate to have Catlett, lnge Hardison, Loïs Mailou Jones, Faith worked as a printmaking apprentice at their Harlem Ringgold, and Betye Saar were gaining high repute cooperative gallery, Nyumba Ya...

...-oriented practice that drew on such intellectual and artis- tic precedents as Negritude, Pan-Africanism, and the assertive black aesthetic championed by Amiri Baraka and others. The work of these three groups and that of other artists active during the 1960s, including Faith Ringgold and Betye...

... are left in shadow, pro- “I am pushing, more or less in the direction of sym- jecting depth, even moodiness. As Faith Ringgold bolism, African symbolism and Haitian symbol- once said, Negro Youth “expressed Loïs’s talent for ism, color and design.”2 In Damballah, named after portraiture and forecast...

... just ask and she will show them, but it should be an occasion, because it’s a big deal to pull out all those slides. Why didn’t they invite Faith Ringgold? They were scared to death of Faith. [laughs] She threatened them beyond belief. There was no way...

... Saunders; noted artists and scholars onstrating the longevity of community involvement Faith Ringgold, Ben Jones, and Benny Andrews, and and support; it paved the way for “Harlem Week,” a AfriCOBRA members Frank Smith, Barbara Jones major celebration held to this day. Hogu, Napoleon Henderson, Akili...

... of nique tempered that sense of vulnerability to the craft labor. For instance, Faith Ringgold was and is point of its dissipation. Woolfalk purposely adopt - deeply engaged in civil-rights advocacy...

..., Kay Brown, Faith Ringgold, Jerri tions of abstraction in general and abstract expres- Crooks, Charlotte Kâ (Richardson), and Vivian E. sionism in particular. Artists of the Black Arts Browne, formed an artists’ collective, retaining the movement often regarded these modes of expression...

... their own preconcep• suggests that Faith Ringgold's improvised tive. For some, the use of monologue tions about a popular black dance they performances using her soft-sculpture...

..., over four hundred people from the United States took part in the festival, including visual artists Jeff Donaldson, Betye Saar, Ernest Crichlow, William T. Williams, Faith Ringgold, and Barkley L. Hendricks; writers Amiri Baraka, Audre Lorde, Jayne Cortez, and Houston A. Baker Jr.; musicians...

... Hollings­ ment to African American experience through worth, and Reginald Gammon, as well as women overt depiction of struggle, which he disparages as like Faith Ringgold, Emma Amos, and Vivian “illustrational interpretation” or “storytelling.”39 As Brown. It also drew together artists responding...

... states, "I accept the Schneemann, Lorraine O'Grady, Faith Ringgold, Camille idea that my art may lose some of its relevance." She actually Billops, and many others. hopes that it will, and says further, "I don't believe work is time- Amos, "Measuring Content," p. 38...

..., Black Light, in Faith Ringgold (Petaluma, CA: Pomegranate, 2004), 28 40. 31 Both phrasings are Akomfrah s. Interview by author, October 6, 2017. 32 For example, David Marriott, Haunted Life: Visual Culture and Black Modernity (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2007); and T. J. Demos, Return...

... landing contrast vividly with Faith Ringgold s Black Light Series #10: Flag for the Moon: Die Nigger (1969), which envisions outer space as just one more locus for racially discriminatory practices to spread. Unlike other Howard University Department of Art graduates such as Elizabeth Catlett, Lloyd...