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i’m back to playing with sticker vinyl. …..insprired by the Quilt’s from Gee’s Bend. I saw the exhibit at the De Young. I am love with the prints at Paulson Press and buying up the stamps!
Hailed by The New York Times as “some of the most miraculous works of modern art America has produced,” the quilts of Gee’s Bend make San Francisco the final stop in their widely acclaimed nationwide tour.
The Quilts of Gee’s Bend features a selection of more than 60 quilts made by four generations of African American women who inhabit a strip of land formed by a deep loop in the Alabama River, about thirty miles from Selma. Descended from slaves and isolated for decades by geography, poverty, and government indifference, the women of this community assembled quilts of astonishing artistry. Described by one reviewer as “eye-poppingly gorgeous,” the quilts were pieced from scraps of fabric often salvaged from worn-out clothes combined in extraordinary combinations of color, pattern, and texture. In design, the quilts are equally remarkable. Bold geometric shapes, dramatic shifts in scale, and an improvisational approach to the way the fabrics are assembled produce abstract compositions more akin to the rhythms of jazz and African art than to the order and repetitiousness of many traditional American quilts.
pics: http://www.quiltsofgeesbend.com/quilts/
yummy prints:http://www.paulsonpress.com/BendolphM/Bendolph_gallery.html
text: http://www.thinker.org/deyoung/exhibitions/exhibition.asp?exhibitionkey=549
