Faith Ringgold: Coming
to Jones Road Part II and other Storyquilts
ACA
Galleries announced the debut of Faith Ringgold's new series
of painted storyquilts Coming to Jones Road Part II. Coming
to Jones Road Part One depicted distant silhouetted images of
slaves moving through beautiful landscapes to freedom on the
Underground Railroad. In Part 2 we meet Precious, Barn Door
and Baby Freedom at Aunt Emmy's Safe House on Jones Road, hear
their stories, and celebratefreedom.
Ringgold is a painter, sculptor and author of numerous
award winning children's books. Tar Beach, her first children's
book, won The Caldecott Award and was made into an animated
short for HBO. The original story quilt is in the collection
of The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY.
ACA Galleries is at
529 West 20th Street, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10011. For
more information, please call (212) 206-8080 or e-mail info@acagalleries.com.
Surveying Judy Chicago:
1970-2010
This exhibition highlights work from Chicago's impressive
career and includes a few examples of the artist's recent
work in glass. The show also includes selected examples
from some of her major collaborative projects (The Dinner
Party, 1974-1979, The Birth Project, 1980-85, the Holocaust
Project: From Darkness into Light, 1985-1993 and Resolutions:
A Stitch in Time) along with less well-known work. Together,
this survey provides a glimpse into the range of topics,
themes, and techniques employed by the artist in her
ground-breaking career.
For five decades Judy Chicago has produced art that
is thought-provoking, passionate, revolutionary –
and at times controversial. Discovering Judy Chicago
as both an artist and writer (with 12 published books
including her forthcoming Frida Kahlo: Face to Face
with art historian Frances Borzello (Prestel, September
2010) is sure to be a revelation to those who associate
her only with The Dinner Party.
Chicago's work will be featured in two museum exhibitions
in New York this fall: The Jewish Museum's Shifting
the Gaze: Feminism and Painting (Sept. 12, 2010 –
Jan. 30, 2011) and The Hebrew Union College Museum's
A Stitch in Jewish Time (Sept. 7, 2010 – June
20, 2011).
ACA Galleries is located at 529 West 20th Street, 5th
Floor, New York, NY 10011. For more information, please
call (212) 206-8080 or info@acagalleries.com
Paintings: Iris Osterman
The Bowery Gallery,
530 W. 25th Street, will present Iris Osterman in her
third solo exhibit in New York, from October 5-30, 2010.
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 9, 3-6 PM.
Streams, falls, rock formations and forests are
the starting point of Osterman's paintings. Working
with a restricted palette in oil and encaustic,
the images come from the land around her home in
Massachusetts, where she has lived for the past
two decades, as well as from trips to Maine, New
York State and California.
Osterman writes, "I rely on observation of
the natural world, but at the same time this is
a meditation on the inner landscape. I prefer to
interpret rather than record my surroundings. A
language of black and white allows me to distill
and select the elements of this landscape more deliberately.
Balance and the rhythm of line and shape attract
me to the subject."
