February is here—and marks the opening of a major Faith Ringgold retrospective at New York’s New Museum in two weeks’ time. In Elephant Issue 42, Louisa Elderton spoke with the radical American artist about her sixty-year oeuvre, which encompasses painting, drawing, sculpture, activism and quilting (seen here). “I wanted to create sculptures but could not use the usual materials such as stone and wood, as I had asthma,’ Ringgold told Elderton of first turning to textiles. “With my mother’s help, I created soft sculptures using fabrics and mixed media. There were a lot of extraordinary characters in the 1960s and 1970s and I wanted to capture them in a three-dimensional format.” Click here to read on.
