Faith Ringgold: Prints and Multiples

Mar 16 - Jun 17, 2022
Installation Views
Press release
Timed to coincide with her first major retrospective in New York at the New Museum of Contemporary Art and traveling to the DeYoung Museum, San Francisco (July 16 – November 27, 2022) this exhibition explores Ringgold’s career spanning interest in prints and editions. Starting with political posters created in the 1970s, the show includes works from every major series – American People; The French Collection; Jazz Stories; Coming to Jones Road Part 1 and 2; quilt editions from Woman on a Bridge and many artworks never exhibited before. The exhibition debuts 2 new editions: Women Dancing on the George Washington Bridge, a silkscreen on silk with a unique hand quilted border and Woman Looking in a Mirror a silkscreen edition based on the 1966 painting of the same title. The exhibition demonstrates Ringgold’s commitment to prints and editions as means to disseminate her artwork and make it available to a wide range of collectors.
 
About Faith Ringgold
Faith Ringgold is a painter, mixed media sculptor, teacher, humanist, lecturer and author of numerous award-winning children’s books. Tar Beach, her first children’s book based on a quilt of the same title, has won over 20 awards including the Caldecott Honor and the Coretta Scott King award for the best-illustrated children's book of 1991. It proved so popular that it was adapted into an animated short for HBO in 1999. The original painted story quilt is in the permanent collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City and is currently on view at the New Museum in New York. Recently Faith Ringgold’s body of work has gained increasing recognition from the art world establishment for its importance and contribution to the canon of art history. Ringgold is the recipient of more than 80 awards and honors including the Simon Guggenheim Award for Painting (1987) and two National Endowment for the Arts Awards in sculpture (1978) and painting (1989). Most recently she was elected as a member into The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, MA (2017) and The American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY (2021) and received the Louis Auchincloss Prize from the Museum of the City of New York (2021). She has been presented with 23 Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degrees.
 
Ringgold’s artwork is in the permanent collections of numerous museums in the United States and abroad including The Art Institute of Chicago, IL; The Baltimore Museum of Art, MD; The Boston Museum of Fine Art, MA; Glenstone Museum, Potomac, MD; The High Museum, Atlanta, GA; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; The Museum of Modern Art, NY; The National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC; The Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA; The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY and The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England. ACA Galleries has represented Faith Ringgold since 1995.
 
Artworks
  • Faith Ringgold Woman Free Yourself, 1971 Offset print 24 x 18 in. 60.96 x 45.72 cm
    Faith Ringgold
    Woman Free Yourself, 1971
    Offset print
    24 x 18 in.
    60.96 x 45.72 cm
  • Faith Ringgold, Jazz Stories: Mama Can Sing Papa Can Blow #7: Love Me Baby AP 12/15, 2004
    Faith Ringgold, Jazz Stories: Mama Can Sing Papa Can Blow #7: Love Me Baby AP 12/15, 2004
  • Faith Ringgold, The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles, 1997
    Faith Ringgold, The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles, 1997
  • Faith Ringgold, Tar Beach #2, 1990-92
    Faith Ringgold, Tar Beach #2, 1990-92
  • Faith Ringgold, The People's Flag Show Poster, 1970
    Faith Ringgold, The People's Flag Show Poster, 1970
  • Faith Ringgold, Mama Can Sing: You Put the Devil in Me, 2004
    Faith Ringgold, Mama Can Sing: You Put the Devil in Me, 2004
  • Faith Ringgold, Tar Beach 2, AP 17/25, 2003
    Faith Ringgold, Tar Beach 2, AP 17/25, 2003
  • Faith Ringgold, Aunt Emmy, 2005
    Faith Ringgold, Aunt Emmy, 2005
  • Faith Ringgold, Woman Looking in a Mirror 21/100, 2022
    Faith Ringgold, Woman Looking in a Mirror 21/100, 2022
  • Faith Ringgold, Faith's Garden Party #1, 2001
    Faith Ringgold, Faith's Garden Party #1, 2001
  • Faith Ringgold, Declaration of Freedom and Independence Quilt, 2009
    Faith Ringgold, Declaration of Freedom and Independence Quilt, 2009
  • Faith Ringgold, Hate is a Sin Flag, 2020
    Faith Ringgold, Hate is a Sin Flag, 2020
  • Faith Ringgold, Big Black, 2010
    Faith Ringgold, Big Black, 2010
  • Faith Ringgold, Henry Ossawa Tanner: His Boyhood Dream Comes True, 2010
    Faith Ringgold, Henry Ossawa Tanner: His Boyhood Dream Comes True, 2010
  • Faith Ringgold, Dear Selma, 2010
    Faith Ringgold, Dear Selma, 2010
  • Faith Ringgold, Dancing on the George Washington Bridge II, 2020
    Faith Ringgold, Dancing on the George Washington Bridge II, 2020
  • Faith Ringgold, Martin Luther King's Letter from Birmingham Jail, 69/75, 2007
    Faith Ringgold, Martin Luther King's Letter from Birmingham Jail, 69/75, 2007
  • Faith Ringgold, Seven Passages to a Flight, 1997
    Faith Ringgold, Seven Passages to a Flight, 1997
  • Faith Ringgold, Groovin' High, 1996
    Faith Ringgold, Groovin' High, 1996
  • Faith Ringgold, Declaration of Freedom and Independence, 2009
    Faith Ringgold, Declaration of Freedom and Independence, 2009
  • Faith Ringgold, Romie: We Love You, 2011
    Faith Ringgold, Romie: We Love You, 2011
  • Faith Ringgold, Born in the USA, 2012
    Faith Ringgold, Born in the USA, 2012
  • Faith Ringgold, Mama Can Sing, 2004
    Faith Ringgold, Mama Can Sing, 2004
  • Faith Ringgold, Idaho Black History Museum, 2008
    Faith Ringgold, Idaho Black History Museum, 2008
  • Faith Ringgold, Wynton's Tune, 2004
    Faith Ringgold, Wynton's Tune, 2004
  • Faith Ringgold, Papa Can Blow, 2005
    Faith Ringgold, Papa Can Blow, 2005
  • Faith Ringgold, United States of Attica, 1972
    Faith Ringgold, United States of Attica, 1972