#blacklives
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ALT“I have always wanted to tell my story, or, more to the point, my side of the story.” – Faith Ringgold.
Faith Ringgold is a painter, mixed media sculptor, performance artist, writer, teacher, and lecturer. Born 1930 in Harlem, New York, Ringgold began her artistic career as a painter in the 1950s.
During the early 1960s Ringgold traveled in Europe. She created her first political paintings, “The American People” Series from 1963 to 1967. This is when Ringgold began to tell “her side of the story” through her art - her lived experience with racial injustice as a black woman in the 1960s. The exhibition “American People, Black Light” showcased these early paintings of the 1960s.
“James Baldwin had just published ‘The Fire Next Time,’ Malcom X was talking about us ‘loving our black selves,’ and Martin Luther King Jr. was leading marches and spreading the word. All over the country and the world people were listening to these black men. I felt called upon to create my own vision of the black experience we were witnessing … I had something to add—the visual depiction of the way we are and look. I wanted my painting to express this moment I knew was history. I wanted to give my woman’s point of view to this period.”
In addition to paintings, Ringgold also created soft sculptures, masks, and story quilts, for which she is best known today.
Image 1: Front cover featuring “Black Light Series #1, Big Black”, 1967, Oil on canvas, 30 1/4”x 42 1/4”
Image 2: “Black Light Series #1: Big Black” and “Black Light Series #2: Man”, 1967, Oil on canvas, 30 1/16” x 24 1/8”
American people, Black light : Faith Ringgold’s paintings of the 1960s
Essay by Michele Wallace, edited by Thom Collins and Tracy Fitzpatrick.
Author / Creator: Ringgold, Faith
Purchase, N.Y. : Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, c2010.
136 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 28 cm.
English
HOLLIS number: 990127471960203941
Lawrence Weiner ( February 10, 1942 - December 2, 2021)
Lawrence Charles Weiner was an American conceptual artist. He was one of the central figures in the formation of conceptual art in the 1960s. His work often took the form of typographic texts, a form of word art.
Your work demonstrated that art has no bounds
Rest in Power!
Print created for Artists for Black Lives, 2020
@2021 Lawrence Weiner / ARS, New York
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Let’s be honest… this American system was never meant to protect us.
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As I type this post tears are running down my face. It’s one thing to know it exists but another to blatantly experience & witness it over and over and over and over and over and over without change.
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Knowing that we have a government with well, can I actually call that evil entity a leader? I can’t, so I won’t.
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I can’t even call our president an illusionist because his actions, racism, lack of actions & lack of compassion for others are so disruptively, blatant. Seeing daily since he stepped foot in office a flagrant lack of compassion, integrity and regard for human lives allowed others to freely put theirs on display.
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Yes, we focus on our black men because we LOVE & NEED THEM. And if we’re really honest… so does every business, organization, sport, system, government, etc… This world simply does not survive without the black man & woman.
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Black ideas, culture, vibes, freedoms, virginities, hope, educations, music, art, jobs, are daily STOLEN from us. Yet, it STILL doesn’t matter even when our #blacklives are shattered, ruined, taken, destroyed & thrown away.
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How much more?
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One day I was talking to my mom & she said… “Since this president has been in office racism has been unhinged. But what they don’t know is, these young people aren’t going to take it and they are gonna have a true fight on their hands but they won’t win.” I’m seeing that these words she spoke, almost two years ago is TRUE.
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It’s one thing to expose and shed light. Now, we’re DEMANDING CHANGE.
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In the midst of all of this be safe. Make your mental, emotional & physical health a priority. I believe it’s important for all of us to seek counseling because this is not & should not be normal. A lot of this could cause some serious PTSD, anxiety and depression.
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Most importantly, let’s make sure that we are not so distracted that we forget to VOTE. VOTE not only for presidential but in our local governments where it counts.
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Thank you to all who stand with & up for us. Thank you to everyone who is marching, been injured, died, and are speaking up.
#LetsBeHonest #BlackLivesDoMatter
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