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Faith RinggoldJAZZ STORIES: MAMA CAN SING PAPA CAN BLOW #7: LOVE ME2020
2020
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Faith Ringgold
JAZZ STORIES: MAMA CAN SING PAPA CAN BLOW #7: LOVE ME, 2020
13-colour silkscreen print on Coventry Rag 335 gsm paper, accompanied by official COA
29 3/4 × 22 3/4 inches
Signed, dated and numbered 88/100 on the front in black marker
Unframed
Accompanied by official COA from Serpentine Galleries, the publisher
This work ships flat.
This work was influenced by the culture of Ringgold’s resident community of Harlem, New York; Duke Ellington and Langston Hughes lived around the corner, along with her childhood friend Sonny Rollins. In the work, a female torch singer pelts out a tune to the accompanying music of her back-up band. Red, wavy lines convey the vibrations of the music. Standing centre-stage in a vibrantly-patterned dress, the singer holds the viewer’s attention, eliciting images of powerful jazz heroines such as Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald. Here, Ringgold celebrates unbridled, female creativity, made all the more poignant in light of jazz music’s significant role in the fight for civil rights.
Nancy Spector, Chief Curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, explains: ‘Ringgold paintings from the 60s and 70s are overtly political, and present an angry, critical reappraisal of the American dream glimpsed through the filter of race and gender relations. Ringgold’s more recent aesthetic strategy is not one of political agitation or blatant visual provocation. Instead, she has come to embrace the potential for social change by undermining racial and gender stereotypes through impassioned and optimistic presentations of black female heroines.’
This limited edition print follows Faith Ringgold’s acclaimed survey exhibition at the Serpentine Galleries in 2019 – the artist’s first in a European institution which included paintings, political posters and story quilts from the past six decades.
The image of a singer and her band in this large 13-colour screen print originates from Ringgold’s Jazz Stories series of quilts which she begun in 2004, one of which was included in the Serpentine exhibition. In this body of work, Ringgold looks back to Harlem and the vibrant legacy of jazz. Growing up in the creative and intellectual context of the Harlem Renaissance, Ringgold’s life has been surrounded by jazz musicians, many of whom continue to inspire her practice.
Faith Ringgold is regarded as one of the most important living African American artists. An acclaimed painter, mixed media sculptor and writer, Ringgold is best known for her "story quilts" that combine narrative paintings with quilted borders and text. Born and raised in Harlem, New York, Ringgold earned her masters degree at City College of New York where she studied under Robert Gwathmey and Yasuo Kuniyoshi. Ringgold is also a noted author of twelve children's books including the award winning "Tar Beach" in which children are encouraged to follow their dreams.
A noted muralist in the 1960s, Ringgold turned to civil rights and African themes in her art. In the 1970s, she began making art objects with media associated with "Women's work" -- textiles, weaving, quilting and embroidery. Her story quilts deal with issues such as slavery, feminism, and art-world politics. Ringgold addresses racial and gender biases with gentle humor instead of harshness. The rich colors and patterns in her compositions use space and line and form in a style similar to folk art. In "Mama Can Sing, Papa Can Blow" Ringgold uses color, line and pattern to capture the mood of jazz music during a live performance.
Faith Ringgold Biography:
Faith Ringgold, born 1930 in Harlem, New York, is a painter, mixed media sculptor, performance artist, writer, teacher and lecturer. She received her B.S. and M.A. degrees in visual art from the City College of New York in 1955 and 1959. Professor Emeritus of Art at the University of California in San Diego, Ringgold has received 23 Honorary Doctorates.
During the early 1960’s Ringgold traveled in Europe. She created her first political paintings, The American People Series from 1963 to 1967 and had her first and second one-person exhibitions at the Spectrum Gallery in New York. In the early 1970’s Ringgold began making tankas (inspired by a Tibetan art form of paintings framed in richly brocaded fabrics), soft sculptures and masks. She later utilized this medium in her masked performances of the 1970’s and 80’s. Although Faith Ringgold’s art was initially inspired by African art in the 1960’s, it was not until the late 1970’s that she traveled to Nigeria and Ghana to see the rich tradition of masks that have continued to be her greatest influence.
She made her first quilt, Echoes of Harlem, in 1980, in collaboration with her mother, Madame Willi Posey. The quilts were an extension of her tankas from the 1970’s. However, these paintings were not only bordered with fabric but quilted, creating for her a unique way of painting using the quilt medium.
Ringgold’s first story quilt Who’s Afraid of Aunt Jemima? was written in 1983 as a way of publishing her unedited words. The addition of text to her quilts has developed into a unique medium and style all her own.
Crown Publishers published Faith Ringgold’s first book, the award winning Tar Beach in 1991. It has won over 20 awards including the Caldecott Honor and the Coretta Scott King award for the best-illustrated children’s book of 1991. An animated version with Natalie Cole as the voice over was created by HBO in 2010. The book is based on the story quilt of the same title from The Woman on a Bridge Series, 1988. The original painted story quilt, Tar Beach, is in the permanent collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.
Her second children’s book Aunt Harriet’s Underground Railroad in the Sky was published in 1992 by Crown. In 1993 Hyperion Books published Dinner at Aunt Connie’s, Ringgold’s third book based on The Dinner Quilt, 1986. Faith Ringgold’s autobiography and first book for an adult audience We Flew Over the Bridge: The Memoirs of Faith Ringgold (Bullfinch 1995; released in paperback by Duke University Press in 2005) as well as the children’s book My Dream of Martin Luther King were published. To date she has illustrated 17 children’s books. Faith’s most recent books are Harlem Renaissance Party (Harper Collins 2015) and We Came to America (Alfred A Knopf 2016).
- Creator:Faith Ringgold (1930, American)
- Creation Year:2020
- Dimensions:Height: 29.75 in (75.57 cm)Width: 22.25 in (56.52 cm)
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- Condition:Ships flat. Accompanied by official COA.
- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1745213932162
Faith Ringgold
Prolific American artist Faith Ringgold has long championed civil rights and women’s rights through her work, which spans media from oils to textiles. Over the course of her career, she has received numerous accolades, including two National Endowment for the Arts awards, one each in sculpture and painting, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (1987) and more than 20 honorary doctorate degrees.
Born Faith Willi Jones in Harlem, New York, Ringgold grew up surrounded by creativity. She was raised by a fashion-designer mother and a minister father, who was a talented storyteller, during the peak of the Harlem Renaissance. She earned both a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in visual art from the City College of New York, in 1955 and 1959, respectively.
In the 1960s, Ringgold’s paintings took a decidedly political bent, supporting the civil rights movement; she protested the lack of work by Black and female artists in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art, both in New York City. She also cofounded Where We At, a collective of Black female artists. By the 1970s, Ringgold had moved away from painting and on to textiles, sculpture and performance art. She created masks of painted canvas inspired by wooden masks made by the Dan peoples of Liberia — also to promote the work of women in art — as well as acrylic works that combined the style of Tibetan thangkas, or silk paintings, with African quilting techniques. This led to her collaborating with her mother in the 1980s for the development of her iconic story quilts, for which Ringgold is perhaps best known.
Ringgold's work can be found in the collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, all in New York, as well as the Baltimore Museum of Art and many more.
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