A Pool of Talent in Hard Times
Melanie Gerlis, Financial Times
January 2021
Tate and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art are among the institutions that have bought works from an exhibition of the so-called “Gee’s Bend quiltmakers”, mounted in London’s Alison Jacques Gallery. The works, in their first dedicated show ever in Europe, were made by three generations of African American women from the remote Alabama River community of Gee’s Bend. “These quilts have got something to say, they are steeped in a rich history of fighting for the rights of a community,” Jacques says. […]