Quilted Portraits of Black Figures by Bisa Butler Wednesday, October 6, 2021
Click below and then click on the first picture to start a slide show of large artworks I find it hard to believe are quilted. All fabric. Even when I see blow-ups, I can’t figure out how Bisa Butler sewed these astonishing works to honor “African Americans from ordinary walks of life who may have sat for a formal family portrait or may have been documented by a passing photographer. Like the builders of the White House, they have no names or captions to tell us who they were.”
