The art world wasn’t always ready for Faith Ringgold. So she spent her career creating her own milieu:
. © Faith Ringgold / ARS, NY and DACS, London, courtesy ACA Galleries, New York 2022.Faith Ringgold’s retrospective
“Her works strongly exist within this aesthetic of Black American storytelling, and for the edification of that community, not from a didactic place of making work or explaining Black life to a non-Black audience.” After launching her “American People” series in the ‘60s—hyper-realist paintings that zeroed in on the racial and gender strife characterizing Ringgold’s everyday life at a time when the art world was obsessed with work that was “cool, unemotional, uninvolved, and not ‘about’ anything,” as she wrote—she joined the stable at Spectrum Gallery on 57th Street, becoming the only Black artist represented there.
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