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Early Works #25: Self-Portrait
Faith Ringgold
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
On View: American Art Galleries, 5th Floor, Witness
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In 1965, Faith Ringgold was 35 years old and already a force to be reckoned with, though many didn’t know that yet.
In fact, it would take decades for the mainstream art world to catch up with her political vision and creative brilliance. Self-Portrait is part of an early series in which the artist addressed the political realities of Black Americans in the 1960s head-on.
As she explained in a recent interview, Ringgold painted people and racially charged events at the dawn of the civil rights movement because she “couldn’t pretend everything was OK.”
Within this series capturing civil unrest and political activism, Self-Portrait stands out as u