The Gee's Bend Quiltmakers

2 Dec 2020-25 Apr 2021

Overview

ESSIE BENDOLPH PETTWAY, DELIA BENNETT, AMERICA IRBY, ANNIE E. PETTWAY, CANDIS MOSELY PETTWAY, LORETTA PETTWAY, QUNNIE PETTWAY, RITA MAE PETTWAY, STELLA MAE PETTWAY, LORETTA PETTWAY BENNETT, ETHEL YOUNG Alison Jacques Gallery presents the first solo exhibition in Europe devoted to three generations of women artists living in Gee’s Bend, officially known as Boykin, a remote black community situated on a U-turn in the Alabama River. The show is organised in partnership with the Souls Grown Deep Foundation, a non-profit organisation dedicated to the preservation and promotion of the contributions of African American artists from the Southern states, and provides a survey of quilts spanning nearly 100 years, with a number of the artists still living and working in Boykin to this day.