28 in his home, alongside his wife and family. After a four-year-long battle with colon cancer, Boseman, 43, died on Aug. Even though he passed, his work and craft will live on forever. He was a hero to us both on and off the screen.
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She has exhibited in group and solo shows across the United States as well as in China, England, Japan, and South Africa. Bisa Butler, in full Mailissa Yamba Butler, (born 1973, Orange, New Jersey, U.S.), American fibre artist whose vivid, life-size quilted portraits of Black individuals reimagine the medium and the genre. Chadwick Boseman was an exceptional human being who gave his community hope. Trained as a painter, she shifted to quiltmaking during her graduate studies, when she made a quilt in honor of her grandmother.
Butler earned her BFA at Howard University, Washington, DC, and her MA in arts education at Montclair State University, New Jersey. Layering materials and meanings, Butler brings to life personal and historical narratives of Black life and invites viewers to look closely and think deeply about the potential and purposes of portraiture.īutler’s work has been shaped by a variety of influences and experiences, key among them family photo albums, the philosophies of AfriCOBRA (the African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists, established in Chicago in the late 1960s), Romare Bearden’s collages, Faith Ringgold’s mixed-media quilts, and Gordon Parks’s photographs. She strategically selects fabrics, using the history or imagery of the prints to reinforce the stories she wants to communicate in each quilt. Bisa Butler creates arresting portraits-composed entirely of vibrantly colored and patterned fabrics-that reimagine and celebrate narratives of Black life.īutler often works with photographs as source images, reimagining the figures captured as attentive portraits with layers of color and stitched details.
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