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Yvonne Well’s Patchwork Histories
A new show spotlights how the artist’s abstract quilts tell the story of the African diaspora.
She has made pieces based on Proverbs and the Seven Deadly Sins, for the White House Christmas tree and the aids Memorial Quilt, and as backdrops for the concerts of Cicely Tyson, Harry Belafonte, James Earl Jones, and Sidney Poitier. Her work is rich with American flags and Statues of Liberty and crosses, reimagining and remaking the familiar iconography of this country into a deeply spiritual, almost joyous celebration of Black struggle. The materials include the kente cloth, which was originally used by African royalty, and the Dutch wax print, named after the traders who brought fabrics inspired by Indonesian designs to West and Central Africa.
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