The earliest traces of quilt making\u00a0can be found in\u00a03400 BC. Since then, the art of quilting winds through cultures across the globe, serving a broad range of functions:\u00a0domestic, commemorative, sartorial and\u00a0decorative.\u00a0\nQuilting is a tradition\u00a0tightly stitched into the fabric of American history. From the quilt makers of Gee\u2019s Bend...
At The Bronx Museum, the first survey of quilt-based works by New York-based artist Sanford Biggers sources codes in American history through pre-1900 antique quiltsCollection of Martin Nesbitt. Courtesy of the artist and Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago. Photography: RCH Photography
Quilting is a tradition tightly stitched into the fabric of American history. From the quilt makers of Gee’s Bend, who occupy a remote hamlet on the Alabama River and have a history of quilting that dates back to the early 20th century, to the continuation of quilting traditions in the work of contemporary artists such as Faith Ringgold and Sam Gilliam.
These are the themes embedded in New York-based artist Sanford Biggers’ latest show, ‘Codeswitch’, a presentation of almost 60 quilt-based works, which has just opened at The Bronx Museum.Biggers is perhaps best known for works that reference African American history, ongoing police brutality against Black Americans and Buddhist spiritualism through a practice spanning film, performance, music and.
Biggers made his first quilt in 2009 for the Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, a stop on the Underground Railroad network. This led him to explore the much-disputed folklore narrative that during the antebellum period, quilt designs – hidden in plain sight on fences, washing lines and trees – communicated coded information to African American slaves about routes to freedom through the railroad system.
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