The show Revelations: Art from the African American South, up at the de Young Museum through April, is completely wonderful and, if you're in the Bay Area, absolutely not to be missed.
It starts off with a huge room full of Gee's Bend Quilts, which I'd never seen in person before, and which in the flesh were so emphatically, powerfully beautiful I could not wipe the grin off my face. Then it move on to several wonderful galleries of sculpture and painting. Here are some of my favorites.
Quilt above is by Jessie T. Pettway
Annie Mae Young
Annie Mae Young
Gearldine Westbrook
Plummer T. Pettway
Rosie Lee Tompkins, Willia Ette Graham, and Johnnie Wade
Willie Abrams
Mary Lee Bendolph
Deborah Pettway Young (this one is two-sided, here is one side)
Deborah Pettway Young (and here is the other side)
Annie Mae Young
Florine Smith
Leonardo Drew
Thornton Dial
Thornton Dial
Cornelia Parker
El Anatsui
El Anatsui (detail)
Lonnie Holley
Mose Tolliver
Purvis Young
Ronald Lockett
John Bankston
Joe Light
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