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Ringgold the liberator
Faith Ringgold is one of the most important US artists ever. CHRISTINE LINDEY explains why
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Faith Ringgold
Serpentine Gallery, London
★★★★★
A VETERAN of the 1960s civil rights, feminist and Black Power movements, Faith Ringgold is a rare artist; she has much to say, all of it important and she expresses it in visually striking ways.
She was born in 1930 in Harlem where her fashion designer/maker mother and lorry driver father prioritised a college education and encouraged her love of art. Although her thorough but traditional art education never mentioned black artists, she’d grown up immersed in the culturally vibrant Harlem Renaissance.
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