Artworks

Faith Ringgold 1930-2024

Absolute Tyranny, 2009

Serigraph

15 x 22 in.
38.1 x 55.9 cm

17 of 35

Print divided into two sections, one depicting the Boston Massacre, and the other a public lynching of three black men. The six serigraph series in a portfolio along with didactic text comprises a historic representation of the Declaration of Independence through the perspective of an African American woman. Ringgold collaborated with master printer and professor Curlee Raven Holton, who is also the director of the Experimental Printmaking Institute (EPI) in Easton, Pennsylvania.

Provenance

Raven Studio- Curlee Raven Holton 1390 Morganhill Rd. Williams Township, PA 18042

Exhibitions

"Figures & Projections", Kutztown University. Dates: 28/10/2021-12/12/2021. Location: Kutztown University. "Ain't I America: Selections from the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art", Hampton University. Dates: 25/01/2019-11/05/2019. Location: Hampton University Museum and Archives, 14 Frissell Avenue Hampton, VA 23668. Link: https://home.hamptonu.edu/msm/2019/05/11/collection-four/ "Constructing Identity: Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art", Portland Art Museum. Dates: 28/01/2017-18/06/2017. Location: Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR. Link: https://portlandartmuseum.org/exhibitions/constructing-identity/

Publications

1. Multiple Contributors, (2021), "FIGURES AND PROJECTIONS: Selected Works from the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art", Kutztown University - Figures and Projections, Catalog, Kutztown University, Miller Gallery, Kutztown, PA, Dan Haxall and Karen Stanford, https://issuu.com/millerku/docs/pff_at_ku 2. Berrisford Boothe, Moe Brooker, Brian Ferriso, James G. Petrucci, (2017), "Constructing Identity: Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African-American Art", Portland Art Museum – Constructing Identity, Catalog, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, Gretchen Dykstra

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