Artist FAITH RINGGOLD speaks with Mosaic of Art host George Fishman about her exhibition at the Miami Art Museum, entitled "American People, Black Light: Faith Ringgold's Paintings of the 1960s." The exhibition was curated by Miami Art Museum Director Thom Collins and Neuberger Museum of Art Curator and Purchase College Associate Professor of Art History Tracy Fitzpatrick. Ringgold describes the turbulent period in which she was in synch with the political tenor, but out of the artistic mainstream that favored abstract art.
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Artist FAITH RINGGOLD speaks with Mosaic of Art host George Fishman about her exhibition at the Miami Art Museum, entitled "American People, Black Light: Faith Ringgold's Paintings of the 1960s." The exhibition was curated by Miami Art Museum Director Thom Collins and Neuberger Museum of Art Curator and Purchase College Associate Professor of Art History Tracy Fitzpatrick. Ringgold describes the turbulent period in which she was in synch with the political tenor, but out of the artistic mainstream that favored abstract art.
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My name is Faith Ringgold. I am an artist and I'm here to celebrate Miami Basel with all these wonderful people. The show, oil paintings on canvas, done from 1963 to the early part of 1970, during that wonderful period when America went through a terrific - what should I say? - upheaval, change. I think for the better. But then I understood that every 40 years we have to do it again, so maybe we're into the process of gettin' ready to do it again.
But the '60s was fascinating and it was when I became an artist. I really needed to tell my story, and at that time there were certain genres of art that were popular - mostly abstract - and I, I picked political for mine, which meant that this work was not seem a lot in the 60s. I had 2 major shows and that was it - '67 and '69 at the spectrum Gallery. The Spectrum Gallery was on 57th St. in Manhattan. The director there was Robert Newman I...
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