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The Arts Intel Report

The New Bend

Feb 3 – Apr 2, 2022
542 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011, United States

The Kitchen’s Legacy Russell has curated a new show three blocks north at Hauser & Wirth in Chelsea. The aptly named exhibition “The New Bend” presents the work of 12 contemporary artists in an ode to the Gees Bend Alabama quilters—the Black American women whose quilts were simultaneously an economic necessity, an intergenerational tradition, and the reinvention of an art form. Russell creates a dialogue between the past and the present while exploring the next chapter of quilting and textile practices, mediums that continue to be steeped in notions of class, race, gender, tradition, and history. —Clara Molot

Travels to: Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles (October 27 to December 30, 2022)

Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio, “Holbein En Crenshaw (Washington Blvd. and Crenshaw Blvd., LA, CA),” 2018.