Faith Ringgold

Faith Ringgold was one of the artists featured at the Tubman Art Museum our class took a trip to a few weeks ago. Upon browsing her work, I chose this piece titled "Street Story Quilt #1, 2, 3" as a good example of an interesting way she used color.

The quilt is split into three sections, of three buildings with black people in the windows. The building on the left is more maroon, the building in the middle is really red, and the building to the right is more brown. It almost looks like the colors she chose for the buildings themselves illustrate sunrise in the building, then mid day, then evening time in the building. Imagining that those were her motives for using those colors its easier to create a narrative in your head about what is going on from left to right in the quilt.