Gee’s Bend Quiltmakers & Lygia Clark
in ‘Patterns’, Luhring Augustine Chelsea & Luhring Augustine Tribeca, New York
21 June – 2 August 2024
Patterns, 2024, exhibition view, Luhring Augustine Chelsea + Tribeca, New York. Courtesy of Luhring Augustine, New York. Photo: Farzad Owrang.
Patterns, 2024, exhibition view, Luhring Augustine Chelsea + Tribeca, New York. Courtesy of Luhring Augustine, New York. Photo: Farzad Owrang.
Patterns, 2024, exhibition view, Luhring Augustine Chelsea + Tribeca, New York. Courtesy of Luhring Augustine, New York. Photo: Farzad Owrang.
Lygia Clark, Qunnie Pettway and Loretta Pettway Bennett are among the artists included in ‘Patterns’, a group exhibition now open at Luhring Augustine’s Chelsea and Tribeca galleries, New York. This exhibition highlights over twenty artists whose work explores pattern in diverse ways – as motif, organising principle, compositional device, and strategy.
Rather than adhering to rigid repetition or structure, these artists invite interruptions and deviations from prescribed forms through varying strategies, opening avenues to new ways of making and seeing. The multi-layered works of the Gee’s Bend Quiltmakers, represented by mother and daughter Qunnie Pettway and Loretta Pettway Bennett, feature experimental processes and compositional languages passed down through generations.