Join us for an exclusive Frieze 91 Private Tour of the New Museum exhibition 'Faith Ringgold: American People' with Curator Madeline Weisburg, followed by drinks at PUBLIC.
Bringing together over 60 years of work that links the multi-disciplinary practices of the Harlem Renaissance to the political art of young Black artists working today, ‘Faith Ringgold: American People’ will provide the most comprehensive assessment to date of the artist’s impactful vision.
Faith Ringgold 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 travelled 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 travelled to Nigeria and Ghana to see the rich tradition of masks that have continued to be her greatest influence.
Madeline Weisburg is a curator, editor, and researcher based in Brooklyn, New York. She is a Curatorial Assistant at the New Museum of Contemporary Art and Curatorial Researcher for the 59th Venice Biennale (2022). Madeline has previously has held curatorial positions at the Jewish Museum and in the Department of Photography at MoMA. She was 2017–18 Curatorial Fellow at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University. Her writing has appeared in Art in America, The Brooklyn Rail, post at MoMA, and elsewhere. She holds an MA in Modern and Contemporary Art History: Critical and Curatorial Studies (MODA) from Columbia University and a dual BA in Art History and BFA in Studio Art from Tufts University in partnership with the School of the Museum Fine Arts, Boston.