#mary lee bendolph

[arsvitaest]

Mary Lee Bendolph, Work-Clothes Quilt, 2002, denim and cotton

#Mary Lee Bendolph

[ungrandvide]

Mary Lee Bendolph

Zig Zag, 2003 Corduroy 98 x 83 inches

#art #mary lee bendolph #quilt #textile #pattern

[onenakedfarmer]

Daily Painting Quilt

Mary Lee Bendolph BLOCKS AND STRIPES (2002)

#daily painting #quilts #Mary Lee Bendolph #2002 #Black History Month

[lisamarie-vee]

#mary lee bendolph #textile art

[garadinervi]

Mary Lee Bendolph, Basket Weave, (cotton, polyester, corduroy), ca. 1990 [Tate Modern, London. Souls Grown Deep Foundation, Atlanta, GA. © Mary Lee Bendolph/ARS, NY. Photo: © Stephen Pitkin/Pitkin Studio]

#art #textile #quilt #geometry #pattern #mary lee bendolph #tate #tate modern #souls grown deep foundation #stephen pitkin #pitkin studio #1990s

[topcat77]

Mary Lee Bendolph (Gee's Bend)

Ghost Pockets, 2003

#mary lee bendolph #gee's bend

[banji-effect]

Mary Lee Bendolph, Blocks, Strips, Strings, and Half Squares, 2005

This quilt was inspired by an intaglio print Bendolph created earlier in 2005, titled Mama's Song:

The print was itself inspired by quilts she had made... an endless cycle of creation ❤️

#mary lee bendolph #textiles #quilt #gee's bend #master teacher

[pwlanier]

“HOUSETOP” VARIATION

Mary Lee Bendolph

( 1998)

Phillips Collection

#quilt

[mybeingthere]

MARY LEE BENDOLPH

(b. 1935, Boykin, AL)

Lives and works in Boykin, Alabama

"Bendolph hails from Gee’s Bend,

Alabama, and she inherited the piecework quilt-making techniques and visual styles that generations of Black women developed and passed down in that hamlet on a peninsula.

Bendolph and other Gee’s Bend quiltmakers’ mastery of abstraction in their work has catapulted what was once a homegrown practice to an internationally acclaimed art form recognized in scholarship, exhibitions, and documentaries. But more often than not, these artists are cast as a collective entity.

Bendolph’s practice, like those of the other Gee’s Bend quiltmakers, was shaped by intergenerational hardships brought on by the legacy of slavery, economic inequality, and intentional isolation on the part of white residents in the nearby community of Camden during the Jim Crow era. Quilts were once a necessary and precious household item that provided

sharecroppers warmth and were thus a means of self-reliance, a result of the community turning inward. But these conditions also facilitated a visual vocabulary and material culture specific to the region. https://nicellebeauchene.com/.../10/MLBendolph_Press-1.pdf

[nancydrewwouldnever]

The Quilters of Gee's Bend

To celebrate International Women's Day, but also because I think everyone should know these amazing women artists

Gee's Bend is an isolated, rural community in southwestern Alabama. It is a community originally formed by the emancipated peoples of the cotton plantation of Joseph Gee, on the former plantation lands. They worked the land as cotton sharecroppers until a Depression-era Federal program helped residents acquire the land outright.

Quilting began as a necessity in the 19th century. Women in the community quilted with whatever little scraps of leftover or worn fabric they could procure - patchwork quilting. This led to a style of quilting very different from more regularized patterns; forms were more freeform and dictated by the shape of the fabric at hand. The Gee's Bend patchwork style was passed down through generations of families living in the community; it came to develop it's own artistic "fingerprint" through the isolation of the community.

By the 1960s the economy in the rural area was very bad due to the continuing fall in cotton prices over decades. As a way to supplement community incomes, the local quilters formed the Freedom Quilting Bee, a workers' cooperative that gave them a forum for selling their quilts. The quilts quickly became sought after by collectors, due to their daring abstract patterns, which so seemed to echo and interact with ongoing "high art" stylistic progression of the 20th century. Gee's Bend quilts today are still some of the most sought after and valued.

Quilters Loretta Pettway, Lucy Mingo, and Mary Lee Bendolph photographed in 2015 for the NEA National Heritage Award

Please take a look at the Souls Grown Deep Foundation website, where you can learn more about the individual quilters, see more images of their works, and learn more about the community.

#international womens day #art #folk art #quilting #gees bend

[arsvitaest]

Mary Lee Bendolph, Husband Suit Clothes, 1990, mixed fabrics

#Mary Lee Bendolph

[florjus]

Mary Lee Bendolph | Work Clothes Quilt 2002

#quilts #textile art #21st century art #art #artists #contemporary art #gee's bend #quilters #quilt collectives

[edge-lady]

Mary Lee Bendolph, Arrow, Mixed fabrics including cotton and synthetic brocade, 84 x 79 inches, 2005.

#Quilt #nonobjective

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[tonysaundersartist]

Mary Lee Bendolph, Blocks and Strips, 2002, wool, cotton, corduroy, National Gallery of Art, Washington

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Some Artists to look at...see bold inparticular

Caroline Achaintre -- Igshaan Adams -- Nevin Aladag -- Olga de Amaral -- Ghada Amer -- El Anatsul -- Evgeny Antuflev -- Leonor Antunes -- Polly Apfelbaum -- Hrafnhildur Arnardottir / Shoplifter -- Tonico Lemos Auad -- Lisa Anne Auerbach -- Jonathan Baldock -- Phyllida Barlow -- Yto Barrada -- Kevin Beasley -- Mary Lee Bendolph -- Sanford Biggers -- Josh Blackwell -- Cosima von Bonin -- Paloma Bosque -- Geta Bratescu -- Huguette Caland -- Pla Camil -- Barbara Chase-Riboud -- Chiachio & Giannone -- Sarah crowEST -- Alexandre da Cunha -- N. Dash -- Cristiana de March! -- Daniel Dewar & Gregory Gicquel -- Tracey Emin -- Josh Faught -- Christina Forrer -- Terri Friedman -- Orly Genger -- Yann Gerstberger -- Sam Gilliam -- Nury Gonzalez -- Sheela Gowda -- Kyungah Ham -- Harmony Hammond -- Channing Hansen -- Mona Hatoum -- Tamara Henderson -- Nicholas Hlobo -- Jim Hodges -- Zon Ito -- Takahiro Iwasaki -- Sergej Jensen -- Reena Saini Kallat -- Kimsooja -- Adrian Kiss -- Abdoulaye Konate -- Teresa Lanceta -- Ruth Laskey -- Sarah Lucas -- Eric N. Mack -- Goshka Macuga -- Turiya Magadlela -- Ibrahim Mahama -- Lavanya Mani -- Britta Marakatt-Labba -- Teresa Margolles -- Annette Messager -- Hana Miletic -- Kazuko Miyamoto -- Oscar Murillo -- Senga Nengudi -- Maria Nepomuceno -- Ernesto Neto -- Rivane Neuenschwander -- Otobong Nkanga -- Eko Nugroho -- Katherine Nunez & Issay Rodriguez -- Fusun Onur -- Sara Ouhaddou -- Rosana Palazyan -- Hardeep Pandhal -- Zoe Paul -- Sheila Pepe -- Grayson Perry -- Michael Raedecker -- Jessica Rankin -- Elaine Reichek -- Faith Ringgold -- Lara Schnitger -- Tschabalala Self -- Indre Serpytyte -- Yinka Shonibare MBE -- Jakkai Siributr -- Kiki Smith -- Shinique Smith -- Renee So -- Valeska Soares -- Do Ho Sun -- Gunes Terkol -- Aiko Tezuka -- Rosemarie Trockel -- Richard Tuttle -- Cecilia Vicuna -- Brent Wadden -- Franz Erhard Walther -- Pae White -- Anne Wilson -- Haegue Yang -- Yin Xiuzhen -- Paul Yore -- Billie Zangewa