For Bisa Butler, "The World Is Yours," Every Stitch at a Time

Textiles

For Bisa Butler, "The World Is Yours," Every Stitch at a Time

Bisa Butler told me this week that this show took time, that the show was hard to make. And in so many ways, history takes time, takes time to understand, to reconcile, and in her practice, the Fall May 11, 2023
Book Review: "Bisa Butler: Portraits"

Books

Book Review: "Bisa Butler: Portraits"

On the cover of Bisa Butler’s Portraits, a six-year old girl stands composed, brave and ready, about to emigrate from Jamaica to the US. Her face beams in luminous, golden light, her hair tied in l March 12, 2021
Bisa Butler and Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi in Conversation for Toledo Museum of Art, December 3rd, 2020

Textiles

Bisa Butler and Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi in Conversation for Toledo Museum of Art, December 3rd, 2020

A few weeks back, we shared our Radio Juxtapoz conversation with Toledo Museum of Art curator, Lauren Applebaum, on the process putting together Radical Tradition: American Quilts and Social Cha December 02, 2020
Radio Juxtapoz, ep 057: Radical Tradition and a Conversation About American Quilts and Social Change

Textiles

Radio Juxtapoz, ep 057: Radical Tradition and a Conversation About American Quilts and Social Change

There are  those moments, the ones we literally designate as those where history stops and becomes a chapter. In America, you talk of 9/11, Pearl Harbor, Kennedy and MLK being shot, the night Ob November 10, 2020
Radio Juxtapoz ep 053: Reinventing, Reimagining and Retelling the American Story with Bisa Butler

Textiles

Radio Juxtapoz ep 053: Reinventing, Reimagining and Retelling the American Story with Bisa Butler

It's a new season here at Radio Juxtapoz, and where we were hoping that Fall would bring back art openings and a sense of normalcy to our already tumultuous year, we are still a bit in flux. This mon September 14, 2020
Bisa Butler: Stitching History

Features

Bisa Butler: Stitching History

Have you ever seen a picture of Frederick Douglass? I have, too. In most photographs, he is wearing a suit, carrying the weight of injustice in his furrowed brows, with an intensity in the eyes that August 31, 2020
Preview: Fall 2020 Quarterly with Bisa Butler, Marilyn Minter, Nicolas Party, Dominic Chambers, Cassi Namoda and more!

Magazine

Preview: Fall 2020 Quarterly with Bisa Butler, Marilyn Minter, Nicolas Party, Dominic Chambers, Cassi Namoda and more!

Kerry James Marshall is not featured this time around, but his presence looms large. He’s referenced, with reverence, by a few artists, Dominic Chambers, notably, but KJM’s powerful oeuvre and wo August 27, 2020
The Incredible Quilts of Bisa Butler In Her First Museum Survey, "Bisa Butler: Portraits" @ Katonah Museum of Art

Textiles

The Incredible Quilts of Bisa Butler In Her First Museum Survey, "Bisa Butler: Portraits" @ Katonah Museum of Art

Where painting is perceived as a singular artistic act, textile work implies collaboration, regardless of how solitary the process might be. Textile artists share a generational pride as they quite l July 24, 2020
Nothing else to see here