|
|
Article: Alabama Quilts at the Cleveland Museum of Art
- Article from:
- Michigan Quarterly Review
- Article date:
- December 13, 2003
CopyrightProvided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
|
Michigan Citizen
12-13-2003
Seventy works by four generations of African-American women, engaged in the
traditional art of quilting from the isolated community of Gee's Bend,
Ala., will be on view at the Cleveland Museume of Art until September of
next year.
Examining these works gives a rare look at a group of 20th-century,
closely-connected artists whose use of motifs, techniques and textiles both
change and endure through the decades.
The quilts in this exhibition represent 45 artists who took fabrics from
their everyday lives - corduroy, denim, cotton sheets and well-worn
clothing - and fashioned them into compositions that more closely resemble
modernist abstract paintings than familiar quilt ...