In this quilt-like work Lockett memorializes Sarah Lockett, his neighbor and great-grandmother, who had raised three generations of Locketts and Dials, including Thornton Dial. In 1995, as Sarah’s health began to fail, Ronald Lockett and Thornton Dial became increasingly interested in quilts. She had been a quilter, and now both men were beginning to sift through her effects. Many of her quilts, like the vast majority of African American quilts, were patternless improvisations of fabric blocks, more like quilt
Ronald Lockett (1965-1998) fue un artista estadounidense reconocido por fusionar pintura y ensamblaje, explorando temas como la identidad negra, VIH/SIDA, el orgullo LGBT y las implicaciones raciales en el arte. Influenciado por Thornton Dial, su obra se exhibió en museos destacados como el Museo Metropolitano de Arte y el Museo Ackland Art Museum.
Descubre Souls Grown Deep: Museo dedicado al arte negro del Sur EEUU. Admira impresionantes colecciones de quilts Gee's Bend y esculturas de artistas como Thornton Dial. Historia y cultura afroamericana.
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